2,5 hours of brutality, violence and massacres

Rating: 7/10 (5 December 2019)

The film is well made with great actors that are doing an excellent job, but it's actually a remake of a Korean film, which are notorious for their excessive brutality and violence. That is certainly not lacking here. The Korean original is much shorter, more efficient and intensive, while Scorsese has made his version as long and tedious as possible. There is very little action the first two hours, and mainly only talk and paranoid intrigue. But the worst thing is the language. The word "f..k" occurs in almost every sentence and at least in every scene. This extremely base and vulgar language with very little vocabulary and mainly used aggressively in constant outbreaks of anger and violence ruins the film and makes it deplorably void of style. Of what use then is the brilliant technique, the excellent actors and the splendid direction, if the film is just 2,5 hours of brutal criminality, atrocious violence, constant massacres and only foul language? Sorry, Scorsese has made a few great and interesting films, like "Bringing Out the Dead" and "Shutter Island", but this is not one of them.