What in the world is wrong with everyone that rated this?

Rating: 1/10 (11 December 2013)

I gave this a 1 MOSTLY because not only is this movie absolutely terrible, but it is absolutely terrible AND nearly 3 hours long.
The plot to this movie is completely awful. The synopsis given by IMDb does not even remotely describe this movie. Maybe that's what the screenwriter possibly intended this movie to be about, and it started out that way the first 30 minutes (maybe), but it went in all kinds of directions with a bunch of meaningless plot-lines, meaningless characters, meaningless scenes.
The acting, fine. Everything else, why? What were you thinking? Were you thinking? <-THAT kind of bad.
We are introduced to several characters and their little lives like they mean something, like they're going to be something. Then they die, or just drop off out of the movie entirely for no reason.
Ultimate crime drama? I don't think so. Every criminal in this movie is an idiot. They're sloppy, make amateur mistakes in the first 10 minutes of the movie, and yet it's shoved in your face that "De Niro's character is so clever and smart, always one step ahead". If he's so smart, why hire a new guy in the beginning for a heist that kills someone and nearly screws your heist over? Then as De Niro goes to take care of the problem and kill him, he looks away (without a hold on the guy) and lets him get away? Didn't watch him or hear him? That was in the first 30 minutes.
The rest of the movie is just complete trash. We get random scenes of these criminal men with their families and how happy their lives are, but not enough to actually give an attachment to their character. We get random scenes of the detective, Pacino's character, in his little life. There was no point in introducing us to the drama of each of these lives, because none of these characters matter and ALL are cut out at the end with no closure, and no real story to close, besides Pacino and De Niro.
By the end of the movie, the "plot" is the struggle between these two conflicting men and their will to do what they want in life. A very dramatic, drawn-out showdown, and De Niro goes down with Pacino holding his hand until his end. How touching. By that time, Pacino's character would have hated him, as De Niro's character shot down his cop friends right in front of him, and De Niro would hate Pacino for killing his friend. So why is there this touching scene where they are now at a closure in their relationship? They met once for coffee.... this supposed epic coffee scene, and talked about how neither would back down to the other. Afterward they killed each others' people and both were raging at the other. De Niro's character can't let a grudge sit (at least this is what the plot would have us believe) and kills everyone that betrayed him without mercy the rest of the movie. But Pacino, this man he met once, is different somehow?
If you decide to watch this movie, watch it with much reservation and no expectations.