Welcome to the dust-in-eyes show, leave subtlety at the door please...

Rating: 6/10 (7 June 2007)

How original.. cops and mob, tough/loud men, some pseudo-philosophic lines, fights, guns, family affairs, Hollywood stars, loud music, frantic editing, ... sounds familiar? Well, no wonder, it definitely is.
Yaaaawwwwwn. Been there, seen that. Scorcese used the overall formula with great artistic success in "Goodfellas". That was something. What we have here feel like leftovers. Crumbs.
This kind of stuff like smells of dust, like old furniture... it relies entirely on formulas and conventions. No invention, no risk taking, 100% formulaic story, storytelling and movie-making.
Granted, it's less boring than Luca's wishy-washy Starwars costly sleeping pills, but frankly, achieving this is not difficult, is it? *LOL* If that's all Scorcese is able to give us nowadays, the only thing more depressing than that is the wide applause it receives.