Potentially an outstanding movie

Rating: 6/10 (13 February 2007)

I feel sorry for the writer, William Monahan. He must have skipped English in school. Otherwise, he would have known that the "f" word is not an adjective. My father was a career sailor who could use expletives with the best of them, yet I never heard such a barrage of gratuitous cussing when his Navy pals gathered at the house. I once told my students in New Jersey that people who use explicits are simply revealing that they are limited in their grasp of the English language.
In summary: good storyline, good acting (probably Academy Award nomination for Jack), and the excessive brutality and crude language (I assume to supply realism) detracted from the movie (too much; distracting, almost tiring).