I hate shock jocks who use crime as art but this is good!

Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2002)

I hate when Hollywood uses grisly or gritty crime to make movies, people are inevitably impressed and that owes in large part to the impressionable stupidity of the average human. I watched this movie waiting to see yet another overrated movie that gullible idiots like due only to the fact that their minds lack logical ratiocination.
I was surprised.
This is a highly entertaining movie and it is so not because the scenes are outrageously violent, not just because the characters are outrageously criminal and not because it makes another pathetic Hollywood attempt to delve into the "criminal mind".
It's entertaining because it is fundamentally sound.
Good plot, reasonable dialogue, good casting and great performances make this long movie worth watching. Even if you aren't in the demographic that is googoo ga ga over crime flicks.