Movie with a potential to have been great

Rating: 4/10 (27 February 2007)

To the guy spotting the goofs on this movie's IMDb presentation page: Martina Gedeck, who played Hanna Schiller was not wearing any hearing aids in this movie. The name of the actress wearing hearing aids was Tammy Blanchard (who played Laura.)
The movie was really long and hard to watch. On two attempts, were it not for my girlfriend, I was about to leave. De Niro is a great actor, but not a great director. There was not much point in putting all these resounding names in, when some of them only had one or two retorts to say in the whole insurmountably long movie. (Joe Pesci only saying a few words reminds a little of Ocean12, when Bruce Willis says "Hi, I'm Bruce Willis".(?) Matt Damon is also so much better in thrillers. He is one of my favorites as far as action movies where he plays the 'heroic' type, but not for the white collar face that you forget once you pass it by. Sure, I am glad to see him trying different sort of things, but would much rather see him running in Berlin than a white-collar guy.