Talent and tape wasted

Rating: 1/10 (20 May 2007)

Talent and tape wasted. All the actors almost are top notch yet how can it fail to deliver on so many levels so frighteningly? Is it that perhaps Scorsese is now seriously getting old and losing it? Is it because the script gets nowhere? Or is it that even Nicholson cannot salvage this unfortunate movie from the baptism of criticism that it will get? Or is it Di Caprio who cannot shake off the novice look whatever character he portrays? Just another sad awful chapter in the saga of the withering directors work ( For reference please see The Black Dahlia by Brian De Palma). Cannot, in any way, be compared to the classics such as Scarface, Donnie Brasco, The Goodfellas, and the like. As for the Irish Mafia portrayed, I believe somehow something is amiss. Somehow, it lacks credibility, perhaps yearning too hard to be credited as tough as its Italian counterpart. And this movie being nominated for Oscars, that would be another thing coming...