Excellent film that is iconic for the kind of mobster genre of films that are out their. In a phrase one of the best 'no nonsense' films out there!

Rating: 9/10 (10 October 2012)

This is a film that is fairly immaculately made, if it isn't the amazingly integrated music with its consistent inconsistency of when it starts and finishes, this is a film which doesn't waste time setting up the scene by showing you pan shots of the city, its instead a film that gets right into the thick of it and stays in it right up until the last scene.
This film does not even make the most common movie mistake that there is, ending the story when the main story line has ended, all plot lines are relatively ended by the end of the story, apart form maybe what happens to the unborn baby and what ever happens to Mark Wahlberg after his ending scene, but by this stage you don't really care, the rest of the story is so good that it is really overlooked.
The cast is excellent, being a huge Nicholson fan anyway, he is on form as always, as well as DiCaprio pulling off a deep and troubled character although perhaps a little bit too much time is spent on him being stressed without it ever really effecting the main story line. Damon's appearance is also welcomed although as the film goes on we are truly taken though the same experience as him as he starts with an amazingly confident performance, diversifying into a near nervous wreck towards the end. However if each of the characters acting was to represent the tone of their characters, this film is really one to watch for character development as especially DiCaprio and Damon's characters and completely different by the end of the film.
This is a true example of a no nonsense film and is welcome in amongst many films which focus far to hard on surroundings, this is the opposite, its all story, everything that happens is relevant in at least some way, and their is little you are left wandering, why was this put into the film?
And all round amazing performance by many actors, obviously Nicholson, DiCaprio and Damon but further I really enjoyed every moment of Wahlberg's no nonsense approach to every scene he is in, as well as also enjoying Baldwins performance and Sheens, who both acted as secondary but crucial members.
Excellent film that is iconic for the kind of mobster genre of films that are out their. In a phrase one of the best 'no nonsense' films out there!