Excellent fantasy

Rating: 7/10 (6 October 2006)

Of course fantasy. You don't kill off that many state cops. If you did, the FBI would take over the whole state, or at least the whole state police operation. Even just the first one could get you that. DiCaprio was much better than Matt Damon, had a much greater range of emotion. He's clearly an actor with much greater depth. Jack Nicholson was his usual terrific scene, and in one of 'em, screwed up his face to talk about a rat and got half the audience laughing because Nicholson reinstated disbelief when he got too vintage Nicholsonian. And the text messaging all over the place? You got to be kidding. And that old standby was there: the video camera didn't work. Several other things that add up to fantasy, not a crime story.