In two words - excruciatingly dull

Rating: 4/10 (27 February 2007)

I have never seen as many people leave a cinema as I saw with this movie. Honestly, it bordered on an evacuation. And this film deserved it. Dull. Dull. DULL. The pacing was mannered - interminable, lengthy pauses and empty-headed stares into space - beyond all expectation of entertainment. It was like Bobby D wanted to strangle the drama right out of his story.
And it looked like a Calvin Klein ad. The lighting was so fake and the art direction so self conscious. This was an ego exercise on a grand scale.
Next time Robert De Niro says he wants to direct a movie, someone should take to him with a baseball bat.