Highly overated

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2004)

Ok i admit i'm not the most objective in that i think a superfluous amount of gangster/crime movies have been made. However i can recognise the inherent qualities of godfather 1+2, scarface and goodfellers, qualities that are in no way present in this film. The biggest problem is the lack of a coherent plot and as far as i can tell the ending is pretty meaningless. The time jump toward the end (Where James Woods and Deniro's characters are old with the worst make up ever to illustrate this fact)led me to a conclusion that is out of touch with the direction the movie was originally going. A twist in a movie is fine but it must make some semblance of sense within the parameters set my the intro and middle of a movie.
I was not drawn in by the characters or the plot which inevitably leaves a viewer bored. AVOID THIS FILM AND SPEND THREE HOURS TRAINSPOTTING OR SOMETHING! - 3/10