Donny McBrasco

Rating: 2/10 (25 March 2007)

This film is terribly disappointing! Pointless really! Generally you spend about two hours making mental notes of conversations events and characters that in the long run don't mean squat! In the words of Alfred Hitchcock, this movie was all McGuffin! Or lots of sizzle but no steak! Plot holes galore. It had more loose ends than Keanu Reeves after a month in prison. Most of this convoluted film is a complete waste of time.
Here is the SPOILER! Within the last ten minutes of the film we are introduced to a character as almost an afterthought, that would have changed the complexion of the entire film! Rendering the film we just spent two hours watching a pointless waste of time! Sure for people expecting Marty's usual splattering blood sequences, you'll get plenty of those. Plenty of graphic physical violence but no real story.
Basically the story goes like this... Low level hood (The GREAT Jack Nicholson) contends with a rat from the police force that wants to know about an undercover agent (Leo DiCaprio) in the ranks of an Irish mob in Boston that no-one really cares about, you shouldn't either. The rat and the undercover agent share the same girlfriend. The undercover agent gets whacked by another undercover agent/rat that Marty finally decides to tell us about in the last ten minutes. The rat (Matt Damon) gets whacked by a disgruntled cop. And as the rat's body lays dead in his new apartment, a real rat scurries by the window... Closing credits.
Clichéd, hackneyed, weak, amateurish, bloated and convoluted.
Save your money, rent Goodfellas again! At least in that one you gave a crap about the characters!