If this movie is better than Goodfellas, barely

Rating: 4/10 (19 March 2007)

Man, after seeing this three months ago, i thought to myself that the man is finishing what he came up to do in this world, and this is getting pretty pathetic, because the crap is hitting the fan pretty hard. First off, this could be the most shallow film, he has ever done. The only thing that could come up with a certain sense of depth, is the notion of identity. But the movie itself is a train wreck, it is horribly clichéd of every crime movie on the face of this earth since Scarface by H.Hawks; and it only seems that Scorsese cannot reinvent himself in the noir or the neo-noir genre. Goodfellas was one-thousand times as better than this film, in content and aesthetic. But in the mob genre, Casino is the ultimate leading contender. When you think about Scorsese, you normally think of three indisputable masterpieces : Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Gangs of New York.
Man, The Color of Money was way, way better than The Departed. When I watched that movie, it only made me think of the other Clint Eastwood, film that borders the same cinematographic style, Mystic River. And for another turn of events, this Eastwood movie also involves the Boston Irish mob. In the other case, Mystic River, in Eastwood's direction and by the great acting of actors, such as S. Penn and T. Robbins; it makes it all worth while. It always seem that there is a hint a plagiarism, or Scorsese was just uninspired.
The only thing that I can really suggest, is to watch all the movies he did in the past, because the man like Coppola, is just losing his touch. And like Coppola, Scorsese doesn't write his scripts anymore, for the shooting script. And the worst part, is that I love Martin Scorsese. I simply love everything that he does, he is an American Luchino Visconti.