Just watch the original "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" instead.

Rating: 3/10 (20 February 2010)

Tedious and boring most of the time, interspersed with gore and irritating music. What was the point of this film, really? Was it meant to entertain mostly teenagers, because the presentation was so over the top that M. Night Shayamalan will probably blush when he sees it? It was a psychological drama without any psychological depth. Leo was again cast in a role that was not right for him. What was needed was someone to physically embody the emotional turmoil the character had endured. And the flashbacks only make the intelligent viewer ask the obvious question, which is, why should we care so much about this one person's troubles when all those people were killed by the Nazis (or survived with their horrible memories)? That was an idiotic thing to include in this film, totally undermining it. Scorsese tried to do way too much here. He could've tried to do a "modern" version of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," for example. Then ending also didn't make sense to me, and was almost an endorsement of suicide, though considering how this impressed me as "career suicide," perhaps it makes some sort of ironic sense.