Good but.....Foul language spoils it.

Rating: 6/10 (20 January 2011)

I was looking forward to watching this film, how could it fail with such a cast and a great director, well for me it did fail, in fact i came near to turning it off half way through and putting it on the 'reject' pile. So what was the problem? Well for me it was the barrage of unnecessary swearing, F**K, Fu***R, C**T, was all I was hearing in nearly every piece of dialogue. How on earth did 'Madolyn' (Vera Farmiga) fall for 'The Rat' when faced with such a foul mouthed lout. Also Matt Damon and Leonardo Dicaprio look so much alike, and even dress alike, that it is really difficult to tell what is going on, as, unless you are familiar with their work, you keep getting the two characters confused. However i am glad that i stuck it out to the end just for Jack Nickolson who was as flaky and demented as ever, though even he was reduced to saying C**t in every sentence. And the final shot with the rat...well that was unnecessary and cheap. I will certainly watch it again to see if it improves with age. In the meantime i am going back to watch 'Goodfellas' again.