A film for people who like to see people get shot in the head

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2011)

I am not a big Scorsese fan. This is a quality film, no doubt, but seems to have a fixation on people getting capped the same way Gangs of New York had a fixation about people getting stabbed in the abdomen. The plot is very complex, perhaps overly so. One is reminded of the phrase, " A long way to go for not very much." Dedication to the cause of revenge, double crosses, hidden motivations, etc., are all over the place in this film. But it always ends the same: with a bullet in the brain pan. The final scene is a gangster version of Hamlet, without the "good night, sweet prince" eloquence of Bard Will. Everybody gets a 9mm lobotomy accept Mark Wahlberg's character. Bottom line: Watch Goodfellas again instead. That's a true masterpiece!