not bad but no so great

Rating: 7/10 (23 October 2006)

I m watching amazed how this movie has become so quick and so easy a masterpiece for hundreds of people.I love Scorsese s films for more than 25 years and, excuse me boys, but this is far from Ranging Bull, Taxi Driver or even Goodfellas.The directing is still brave, but the core of the film is less brilliant than in his old movies unless it is more "spectacular" and more enjoyable for the big audiences.Dicaprio plays at the top of his level, this mean GREAT, so Walhberg too.But unfortunately Damon does not reach that high an uncle Jack is overacted and his scenes only makes the film longer an gorier, not better.There is a fine piece of editing in this movie and the cinematography works really fine but there is a big trouble over there....a script that is plenty of holes and more worried of being thrilling than to go deep into the character and his lives.The best scenes are literally copied from Infernal Affairs and the new ones are meaningless.They told us a story 45 minutes longer than the original but without any real new content.That s a common problem nowadays, sometimes the economy of style is a forgotten virtue and Marty is every time more convinced that he needs to do films of more of two hours to convince us about how many things he has to tell.Good but no great.7 out of 10