What a mess!

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 2007)

While the acting was good, the direction and editing were purely awful. What a mess! Mark Wahlberg was irritatingly funny and Jack Nicholson simply does what Jack does best. Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon both did good acting jobs and the supporting cast was solid. The problem was not with their performances but with what Scorsese did with it after shooting ended... Vanity shots that served no purpose other than to look "cool" were thrown in. It was chock full of messy edits that weren't even remotely stylish, and it was a poor mish-mash of attempted styles.... not to mention a lack of imagination in the structure of the film. This movie could have been SO much better and I can't help wondering how much improved it could have been if someone like Quentin Tarantino or even Bryan Singer had been able to do it. Martin Scorsese has deserved an Oscar in the past but certainly not for this jumbled mess. The actors deserved better.