Did this movie receive an Oscar?

Rating: 3/10 (6 April 2007)

I did not know this was an Internal Affairs remake. But Scorsese & Nicholson made me curious enough to watch it. I have to admit I didn't understand the story at all (Goodfellas HAD a life-like human story), except for the trivial fact that there were mutual rats in both police and mob force. Nicholson played well and energetic, I think, but the rest of the actors sort of too much engaged the f-word instead of making something out of their characters. I have seen all of the IMDb Top 250 movies (and some more) but my guts tell me this is not a good film. A good film is when you are so stunned afterwards that you watch until all the credits are finished. And then you don't get up easily from your cinema seat and you just go on pondering or being overwhelmed outside. Nothing of this happened to me with this movie. The amount of blood spilt should not outweigh the amount of philosophy as we can find in Pulp Fiction (or maybe in Kill Bill). Too many characters without any character.