Scorsese is overrated yet again

Rating: 7/10 (14 October 2006)

This was a pretty good film, but it's mostly because it has a really great cast. Marty Gore-sese has yet another film with blood splattering all over the place and at some point in the film you know that everyone is going to be shot except for a lucky one or two.This creates a domino effect with the scenes for the final 40 minutes or so - one down, who's next? This device in screen writing is very mechanical and has been used many times (see Road to Perdition for a recent example) The music, while adding atmosphere and excitement, substitutes for dialog and is overused in my opinion. The female psychiatrist who is involved with Damon and Dicaprio is pretty lightweight for the role; she's too important to the story to be just average.
-spoilers, don't read if you have not seen the film - Once you think the story is over and the bad guy has won, the character they conveniently removed from story comes back and kills him... all the central characters die. Is that the point, no one wins these wars between the cops and the criminals?