surely not this time!

Rating: 7/10 (10 December 2006)

we were under the impression that this would be Scorceses masterwork, reading the other comments, but after seeing the movie, we couldn't disagree more. It's as if we've seen it all done before and we regret to say, better, much better by far, by Scorcese and others as well. A lot of one-dimensional characters, one-dimensional violence and over the top language. 273 times the word 'fuck' seems a bit overdone. On the other hand, diCaprio portraying a multi-layered character, full of doubts, was an absolute joy to watch. This in contrast to the other leads, which gave a rather charicatural performance. As for as Oscar-night concerned, we would be very surprised to not see diCaprio at least get a nomination, but that's it! There must surely be better performances in the other categories, including film and director.