Am I sick for crying at the end?

Rating: 10/10 (31 October 2001)

This a marvelous action film, as it combines some heavy-duty action scenes, with maximum realism (except maybe for the old machine-guns-who-never-run-out-of-ammo thing, but I'm so used to that I hardly react to it anymore.) and great work by both the director and camera people, with some actual in-depth views on the lives of both the 'good' guys and the 'bad' guys (represented mostly by Pacino and DeNiro respectively) portraying them both as something in between good and bad, yet making a clear distinction as to who we're supposed to be rooting for. And yet, we end up liking both characters, and I found myself actually hoping that DeNiro should get away free. And the end could really have been bad, I mean the whole film is a buildup to the final confrontation, but it was actually pretty OK. Sure, they could have done it better, but nine out of ten other directors/writers would have done it worse. There are of course a few things I really would have liked to see in this movie, but as it was already pushing at three hours, it's understandable that it stops where it does, even though it leaves more than one string of plot unfinished. Finally, yes - I cried at the end. It was the music, I'm a sucker for Moby ;)