at last a great adult drama, made for adults that asks you to think

Rating: 10/10 (17 November 2006)

What a cast Damon, De Caprio, Baldwin, Nicholson, Winstone, Sheen, Wallberg - each of these heavyweights gives a top class performance. Leonardo above all finally breaks away from the the shackles of years of starring in flawed movies (I'm still haunted by the shambles of the The Beach, Titanic and Gangs of New York) to give his best performance to date by a country mile.
I saw this movie on the opening night in Auckland and you could feel the tension in the packed movie theatre - the anticipation of what was going to happen next. OK, so the language is a bit choice and some of the violence is a bit full on but it feels at home in this kind of movie - certainly not inappropriate. As I heard a few people leaving at the end say " at last a great adult drama, made for adults that asks you to think as well".
A hell of a movie and the best on the circuit at the moment - don't delay.