No disrespect to the fans - help! does anyone else think this film awful?

Rating: Null/10 (10 October 2006)

I would like to say this is just my opinion, and I wanted to post a message to see if I was totally alone in it! I am meaning no disrespect or saying "you are wrong!" to the people who liked this film! I saw this film the other night, and well from the off I thought it was absolutely terrible. The script just seemed to be full of macho swearing nonsense and very little else - however the premise of two parallel characters was very interesting, and I thought DiCaprio did his role justice - but the film never took them anywhere near the depths that would have made it truly engaging. There seemed to be lots of contradictions - jack nicholsons character was painfully 2 dimensional and so very unrealistic. I mean no one is that superficial are they? Banging on about p***y and money to illustrate a personality doesn't seem to suggest much of one, especially not a complex individual who would be dancing the fine line of crime and citizen. Even the tag line is a bit of a car crash cliché (the one about barrel of a gun blah blah blah). Is anyone else fed up with this Hollywood-fed nonsense dressed up to be "gritty" or "real" or "profound"? People seem to love this film - what has happened to telling a good story well!