well...

Rating: 8/10 (10 October 2006)

The ending of this movie was so neat, Marky Mark was wearing booties.
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Honestly. Amazing potential, a golden cast, incredible acting, a perfectly executed story, each scene so crafted, and then the ending wrapped it all up in such a contrived way. You could actually predict the last five minutes.
I am all about movies ending - no loose ends - but this ending was so planned... It just ruined the movie for me. The movie is an 8, but with a different finish, it would easily have been a 9.5. There is no bad acting in this movie at all. The overall culture is represented almost flawlessly, and each person plays a necessary role (save perhaps Alec Baldwin, but I like him a lot, so it was all good).
Martin Scorsese also seems to be stuck in a little bit of a genre rut. I can't blame him - he does movies like these very well - but you almost wish he would strike out and do something a bit less mob-oriented.