Too long, too noisy, too boring - a pastiche

Rating: 4/10 (21 October 2006)

What IS it with Scorsese and endless VIOLENCE ? actual violence, communication violence, interpersonal violence, and on and on. Another East coast violent gang movie ? in 2006?! I don't think so, thank you very much. If it had been made in 1990, then maybe .... But today we have enough real violence on the TV news each night about a real increasingly violent world. Nothing fictional can compare any more, and it is pointless to try. Where was all the subtle character analysis? and growth? and inner dilemmas ? and on and on. And Jack Nicholson hammed it up good and proper - what else could he do? - at various points the audience in my theatre (in the UK) were LAUGHING !!! And the movie was too, too, too L-O-N-G ! And as for the number of tedious F-words ! seemed like the scriptwriter was trying to vie with J D Salinger in -The Catcher in the Rye- for the number of G--D-----s. In today's world? Pathetic ! Come on, Marty baby, you CAN do better than this - before you get too old to try !