not Flawless but still GREAT!!

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2002)

Brian De Palma said "Any filmmaker knows the older you get the harder it is. "
I think Scorsese was more interested in the time and place than the story. As the story goes it was OK But the first fight seen was the best filmmaking I have seen in a long time. I have never seen a fight scene cut to music and the shutter speed made it more disturbing. It wasn't too much so you can be Desensitized by it, just enough for you to squint. (The broken leg was my favorite) And the attention to detail in every frame was phenomenal. Each frame was so vivid that you need to see it more than once just to get every frame to register in your mind.
Just to create something that we have only seen in little sketches and make it so real is an achievement all itself. It was not the flawless Masterpiece I thought it was going to be. But the good out did the bad and is a must see.