Overrated...

Rating: 6/10 (29 August 2010)

I've seen better gangster movies. The artistic style of the director drags some scenes along waaaayyy too long. At times it seems as though you're watching a daytime soap opera. The rape scene wasn't just hard to watch because of the content. It was hard to watch because after about 30 seconds I'm thinking to myself, "enough already, we get it!" The other issue I had with this one was the flashforwards and flashbacks intertwined with DeNiro's character. At times it was hard initially to recognize which time period the film had shifted into from one scene to the next. This is especially true at the end of the movie when one female character appears to not have aged a day.
It's not worth your time to watch the director's cut. Rent/Buy The Godfather, Casino, or Goodfellas instead.
-moviefiend!