Wasted watching, directed like a kids film.

Rating: 1/10 (9 August 2013)

This was a truly awful, lifeless excuse for a gangster movie. I have no idea why the thing is so critically acclaimed and rubs shoulders with masterpieces such as Goodfellas and The Godfather. The characters came across as two-dimensional, predicable half-wits who bared no semblance to any human being in a serious or emotional situation. The arrogant optimism and achievements of the protagonists gave the plot the endearing vibe of a children's summer vacation film, and this jarred with the unmoving and completely arbitrary occasional depictions of graphic violence. Connery was terrible, De Niro was terrible, and everyone else was terrible. I should have watched Mamma Mia instead as even that seems like it would have been a more effective exploitation of the art of cinema.