Feel like you have watched a great film but does not stick with the ending.

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2007)

This is a good film, the direction is great, the acting is great, the script is great and the plot is gripping all the way through. I was actually feeling distress as to weather Dicaprio's character was going to get caught out as Scorsese did well with the fast pace of it and letting you know that it can easily pick up and take a completely different direction from what you though was going to happen.
I did enjoy watching this film as it kept me involved and gripped the whole way through and I do not usually choose to watch films about gangsters or involving much violence but it didn't seem needless as the idea was to catch the people doing the needless violence.
However my one disappointment was that the ending seemed rushed and didn't leave me feeling very satisfied after all that time with it as the character you are rooting for for all that time is dead and over with so quickly, and from what I read from a post about the differences with the original film, his death was one of the key scenes of importance and with the violence involved before hand took a lot away from it as you have a feeling it's going to happen quickly like that and he probably won't get away now. But maybe the funeral scene was intended to make up for it.