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Rating: Null/10 (9 August 2011)

I got frustrated watching this movie at first because the story time line kept moving around. It was hard to follow the plot, even though the events were pretty clear cut on screen.
The story follows 3 time lines, when he is a boy, when he is in his late 20s, and when he is in his 60s. It begins with him going into exile after his girl friend gets shot(not really a spoiler, happens in the first 5 minutes). The movie then flashes into the past, present, and future to create a seamless blend of events that go reiterate the main morals of the movie. Morals like not betraying your friends.
What I really enjoyed about this movie is that it was really entertaining. Things like-- did he really just do that? (He rapes a girl in one scene, we later find out the girl planned everything so she wouldn't be considered as the one that tipped him off). It also makes the main characters look pretty evil some times. Usually in today's society we don't encourage films about the bad guys. We just film the do good honest people and avoid controversy.
I enjoy this film, even watching it 30 years after release. De niro has always been one of my favorite actors. I especially like that the plot can be interpreted in a variety of ways. There doesn't seem to be one explanation for everything and there is multiple possibilities that make the viewer use their imagination to think about what happened.