Ninety Excruciating Minutes Too Long

Rating: 1/10 (25 October 2006)

A hundred fewer Nicholson raised eye-brows. Make that two hundred. Remove the entirely gratuitous bashing of the Catholic Church - a Scorsese trademark. Cut the first fifteen minutes' pathetic attempt to give the film historicity and gravitas. Excise either one of the two main characters completely since neither's motivation to do what they did - despite the tedium of two and a half hours of celluloid - is at all adequately developed. Did I say adequately? ...and you've got yourself a fairly mediocre T.V. episode of...
Did I mention how tired I am of Nicholson's eye-brows? Oh yes, upon reflection, I see that I did. But those who liked this film - and their number is legion - won't be bothered by redundancy. Will they?