Typical Scorsese - Over-rated!!!

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2007)

Not a bad film from a character study point of view, but pretty dumb from a story point of view. Jack plays Jack, Leo still comes across as a teenager continually auditioning for a part as a "serious" adult actor, the rest of 'em were adequate in an enter-twining who's good, who's evil sort of way. But the ending! The stupidest ending in a film in a long time!!! All the main characters have their brains blown out? What the hell were Monahan & Martin trying to say? Stupid. Very stupid. We invest all our time in this story and it ends in an inane bloodbath, without any sense of what the hell the message or point was supposed to be. If there even was one. Guys like Scorsese and the people who do the Sopranos etc. spend so much time glorifying these violent, insane, psycho mofo killers I guess they gotta kill 'em all off at the end to assuage their guilty consciences. Over-rated. Rent some John Woo Hong Kong gangster movies: you'll get the requisite blood and guts, but at least the endings will make sense and be satisfying, unlike The Departed. D .