And the Oscar for worst swearing in a movie goes to...

Rating: 3/10 (28 February 2007)

this otherwise very mediocre movie.
Look, I don't care if it is a remake or not -- not an issue. Both Thomas Crown movies were good, for example. But I am frankly sickened that this movie won best picture, and that Scorsese won his (body-of-work) Oscar for this piece of literal dung. It reminds me of Sean Penn winning for Mystic River when he should have won for I Am Sam.
Wahlberg was off the scale unrealistic. Not at all impressive acting. I may have to move him to the always-avoid category I've affectionately dubbed the Revolta zone.
Nicholson was great, as always. He can truly make any movie work and become successful. So where was his supporting nomination? Damon was OK, given his character's ridiculous behavior (I blame the director and script). Ditto for DiCaprio, who put amazing effort into this lost cause.
This movie has hundreds and hundreds of swear words. Some are EXTREMELY ugly. Virtually all are gratuitous and do NOT help this movie. The lowest of these words make this movie unfit for repeated viewing -- and that is a crime. I blame the super ordinary scriptwriter who shall remain nameless and hopefully career-less.
This movie is overly graphic in places. Add to that a sound track that is one of the worst I have ever heard -- boring, mostly, except when a gun is fired or a body hits the ground.
By the way, the best scene involved the ringing phones (and nary an expletive).
All in all, this movie is disgraceful, Mr. Scorsese. You have made some good movies, (and some excellent commentaries), but this one is unfit for human consumption.
2* out of 4* for those not put off by sickening amounts of swearing and gratuitous violence.