I don't know if we watched the same film

Rating: 4/10 (6 October 2006)

This one went on way too long and had too much Jack Nicholson's shtick. The story had more holes than Whitey Bulger's victims did. I saw the original and was not impressed with the good guy/bad guy duality. I tried to give it a chance, but it sank like a body in the harbor. It was nice to see actors valiantly trying to grip the MA accent, but some, like Nicholson, gave up any pretense.
It was also funny to hear thugs deliver their lines with well-formed thoughts and references to Joyce and Shakespeare, despite the fact that they are low-class thugs.
Setting up a meeting in a porno theater might have worked twenty years ago, but where are there any in the world? At times, Scorsese's use of music was boring.
And the ending, oooh there's a rat in your apartment! That was just funny.