Far too long, slow-moving

Rating: 5/10 (2 June 2014)

I expected much better for another Scorsese-DiCaprio collaboration.
The movie starts out well. I was immediately pulled into what seemed like an interesting story where we'd have a super sleuth investigating a incident and cracking down antagonists one-by-one.
Instead it turned into a psychological thriller that reminded me all too much of other recent psychological thrillers, making it run-of-the-mill.
I thought the movie took far too long to wrap everything up. This could've been done in an hour and forty minutes time. Many of the long dream sequences could've been shortened, they weren't effective anyway, and fall short when compared with Bernard Hermann music-backed dream sequence of Vertigo (which is what Scorsese was going for).
I think this movie is overrated, and the director and lead actor involved have done much more impressive things in their careers, both respectively and together.