Top 10 Worst movie of the year

Rating: 1/10 (10 October 2006)

Scorsese has very little faith in the viewers' intelligence with his constant use of symbolism and visual clichés. Half way through the movie the repeated killings became "camp" and the audience I was with started laughing out loud. By the end of the movie it had clearly become a comedy for this audience. The final scene, which I assume was meant to be serious, had most of us leaving the theater while still laughing.
Perhaps Scorsese meant it to be camp. If so it was a successful movie. If not, I would have to say rather than this being one of the ten best movies of the year it was one of the ten worst.
Matt Damon was lackluster at best, Nicholson, while acceptable, still seems to have to do is "Here's Jack" face at least once in every movie, and the director doesn't seem able to control him. DiCaprio, whom I have found generally to be a weak actor, did his best job to date with a poor script. Sheen phoned it in. Wahlberg, at least, was interesting.
If you like lots of "Jesus symbols", lots of Devil innuendos - get it? nudge nudge - an actual rat crawling along the balcony railing in the final scene in case you've missed all the references to all the rats in the movie, and finally what the constant cell phone has done to society message, you'll love this movie. If not, save your money. This is not the movie for you, trust me.