slightly overrated

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2006)

All in all, this was indeed a good film. Certainly better than 90% of the garbage out right now. But it was not in the same league as Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Age of Innocence, Kundun, Casino, Raging Bull. It had a lot of over-acting (Nicholson) and none of the camera directing and scene construction that made the previously mentioned Scorcese movies so great. Those movies were rich in every sense that a director can enhance a movie that already has a good script and a good cast. Scorcese constantly reminded you that it was a "Scorcese" film.
It perhaps is in the same league as Gangs of New York and Aviator. Well paced, well acted, and well written, but not as significantly crafted.
When I heard that this film was supposed to be Scorcese's return as "Scorcese," I guess I expected too much.