Fantastic Movie; A New Classic

Rating: 10/10 (18 October 2006)

Hopefully this will gain Scorsese the Director's Guild Award and an Oscar at long Last!!!! The man should have won for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull & Goodfellas!! This movie soars from the opening shots. The acting was also magnificent. DiCaprio should win best actor for the most intensely existential role since Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. You can feel the loneliness and alienation etched on his face in every shot. All were great including Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon & Jack Nicholson. Also best ensemble cast at the SAG awards is guaranteed.The camera work by Michael Ballhaus was also perfect and of course Thelma Schoonmaker's editing is again the standard to beat for the guild awards and from the Academy.