Just an amazing example of cinema ...

Rating: 9/10 (13 February 2007)

I was not sure of how this movie would play out after seeing the previews for it. But I must say it is a fantastic movie in many ways.
Great cinematic vision, filming, and all of that stuff. Excellent story, even if it does start slow and slow down in a few places. This is the kind of thing that you would expect from Scorcesse. Some moments in the movie make you think that you are missing something, because it doesn't make sense right at that moment, but have no fear, it will.
Not a big DiCaprio fan, but I think he actually did a fantastic job. I like Damon in the Bourne movies, and pretty much everything else he is in, so this was no disappointment either. And of course Nicholson is a whack-job, so he fit right in with the character.
A few of the scenes where people get killed came out of nowhere ... and when it happened to DiCaprio ... I jumped ... just a little. Mostly because I thought he would be OK by the end of the movie. But I was wrong.
Great movie all around, anyone that says different has some sort of hatred of why movies are made in the first place.