Shame on you Martin

Rating: 5/10 (6 October 2006)

How over the top will this movie be? How many times will Jack Nicholson do his Satan face in one movie? Will we see Leonoardo be an apprentice to another gangster? Is this an Irish Goodfellows or Gangs of New York set in Boston? And...just how many really bad Irish accents will we hear in one night? How many brain spatters can you have in one movie? Jack Nicholson dropping in and out of his accent and Martin Sheen sounding like John Kennedy made some scenes look like Saturday Night Live parodies. After the finish that put most of the characters out of their misery, it was a relief to put this movie out of its misery.
I was looking forward to this, hoping that maybe this time Scorsese would finally get his Oscar. After all, had had half of the major male lead actors in Hollywood - Nicholson, Alec Baldwin, Mark Walberg, Matt Damon, Mattin Sheen. By the time this movie wound down to its end, the mainly middle aged adult, affluent audience (not the crowd I associate with laughing at extreme violence) was reduced to chuckles and relief when the credits started to roll. What a stinker.