Anyone for seconds?

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2010)

I feel sure most of the audience in the cinema did not like this! Anyone looking for a shock filled gore fest will be very disappointed. Oddly, considering the film's esteemed director the problem lies with that very person! It is somewhat LAZY and SELF INDULGENT. I do believe MR SCORSESE should become a food critic now and let someone new take over.As many people have pointed out it is fairly apparent after about ten minutes roughly how the film will end; however that is not necessarily bad and I don't think it mattered in this case. Far more problematic was the intrusive score; there were some places where silence would have been more appropriate.
Having said that I ENJOYED this film. Di Caprio was as earnest and professional as always and Kingsley was plain enjoying himself. One of the better scenes in the film was between Di Caprio and Max Von Sydow who fizzed viciously as they clashed. The scenes along the cliff were handled beautifully, albeit in a kind of sub Hitchcock way...Which sums it up really. If you like such films as Vertigo, Spellbound and film noir you gonna love this.