What a gobbler

Rating: 2/10 (16 August 2003)

Enough fawning over the fact it was a Martin Scorcese film, this thing is dreck. DiCaprio is terrible, Day-Lewis overacts to an outrageous degree and the fight scenes are so full of obviously pantomimed fakery they are insulting. I watched for an hour and a half, hoping for some improvement or at least a reason why these things depicted were happening in this unlikely way before giving up, thus salvaging the next hour and a half of my life in time before I wasted it on the rest of this bad movie. If the departed Ed Wood Jr. had ever had a budget the size of what this turkey must have enjoyed he could have doubtless directed a much better production than Scorcese did here. Cinematic garbage. 2/10