Good but not great

Rating: 6/10 (11 October 2006)

On the good side: - Great acting across the board, and a particularly superb performance from Leonardo DiCaprio. Well directed and a very high degree of realism throughout the movie. Very engaging, often quite shocking.
On the not so great side: - A lot of threads to the plot. It's a long film and really requires a great deal of concentration to follow the intricacies of the story. Some threads come and go and--although this is, I suppose, realism--for me this detracts from the overall impact.
I found myself walking out of the cinema thinking thoughts along the lines of "But hang on, if the butler did it, then why did Old Man Withers who runs the amusement arcade eat the pastries?" rather than "Wow! What a movie!"