A clever movie

Rating: 10/10 (18 October 2006)

Scorsese takes us into a violent travel into the crime and police environment. By making a remake from a series of three Hong-Kong gangster films, he staged some Irish characters in a violence that blast us out of our chair. We love them all. Any death become a sad event, and it doesn't happen only once.
Then, Scorsese edited it has a rapid series of events that flow into a back wall of songs (but it's used in a different way as Tarantino's Kill Bill, at last). The scenes are shorts and right to the point, always cutted to maximize the clever style of the film. We feel like the time is rapidly passing by, and the characters are developed by some quick details (like an Alec Balwin's dirty shirt).
So, this is a comic treatment of a tragedy, like the antics ones. And the actors are all in their best shape, I never liked DiCaprio, Damon or Walhberg before and then, suddenly, they play some Oscar roles.
Simply refreshing, entertaining, fascinating and clever!