Year's best - best in years?

Rating: 9/10 (9 October 2006)

This is easily the best movie I've seen in a long time. (The last 2 good movies I saw were "The 3 burials of Malquiedes Estrada" & "Collateral," FYI.) Great acting (even from Leo who I don't like), taught drama, the fast pace of this movie never seemed to let up, to me. (I had read reviews saying it dragged at points.) It was just non-stop intense drama and action and an ending - well, I won't give away the ending. It's one of those movies - I wanted to sit back down and watch it again as soon as I got out. Scorsese is SO good, this movie is so well written and every actor turns in a star performance. One glitch seemed to be the editing at points - the scene transitions were at times very quick - maybe too quick at 1 or 2 points - but the audio didn't seem to keep up. That's a trick of his, I know, but at 2 points, I thought it was unintentional. Whatever, that's my only critique, you know? PLUS - hello? Comfortably Numb from the Roger Waters Berlin Wall show? (at least, that's where I think that recording was from) - OUTSTANDING! Not really a "love song" to me, but whatever, that's one of the best songs ever in one of the best movies I've seen in quite some time.