What was with the music?

Rating: 7/10 (15 October 2006)

I won't retread what everyone else is writing about...comparing it to "Internal Affairs", etc. Not fair. This was not a 'great' film, but just a really good film that was tense and very enjoyable, although about 20 minutes too long. Could have cut a lot of fat, Marty. The acting was terrific from Jack and DiCaprio, but how the Sheen and Walberg characters were developed made no sense. Or maybe it was that they under and over acted, respectively. Their opening scene together with DiCaprio was distractingly bad. I also didn't like to co-love interest angle at all...how many time have we seen that? And the ending, the last scene...was very confusing.
But what chapped me the most throughout this film is the music that ran through the background. It's like a jukebox was planted in the corner somewhere in the oddest scenes, playing the oddest songs. It was so distracting because you couldn't figure why it was there to begin with. In fact, it was so oddly placed in one scene that I honestly thought it was bleeding into the audio system from somewhere else. Unless there actually IS a jukebox playing in a diner scene, why would you overlay a song unrelated to the dialog or emotion of the scene. It works great in "Grey's Anatomy" and "Brothers and Sisters" but not here.
Despite my annoyances, overall I still liked it, but don't let anyone tell you it's the best film of the year.