"The Twilight Zone" meets "...Cuckoos Nest." Sheesh...

Rating: 3/10 (21 February 2010)

With this tripe, Mr. Scorcese enters into my "hit or miss" category. He has made some great flicks, no question, with the latest being "The Departed." But, Marty seems to have gone totally derivative here (Kubrick, Hitchcock and Bergman, for example) and left his creativity somewhere else.
The most remarkable thing about this movie is Max van Sydow...he's 80 years old, for cripes sake and looks 65! This is silly stuff, overwrought and overlong, with dead children being the device from the black hole of creativity that is used to horrify us and cement the plot (did John Irving work on this script?).
I believe the good reviews came only because Scorcese directed, and would love to have read them if the reviewers were blinded as to who was the director.
Looking back, I am trying to remember one memorable scene...but I can't. One thing's for sure: I have seen enough close-ups of Decaprio to last a lifetime.