Sodom and Gomorrah times one hundred, disgusting beyond words

Rating: 1/10 (2 September 2014)

Has Martin Scorsese gone mad? Some people try to excuse him by saying that this film is a black comedy. Black it is, beyond imagination, but despite some comic moments, it is no comedy. It is a disgrace, and such things should never be put on the screen. It is the most disgusting mainstream film I have ever seen. (I'm sure there is much worse in the porno world, but I do not watch such rubbish.) People might say, 'but Scorsese is so clever and talented, and Leonardo diCaprio gives such a brilliant performance!' True, but no excuse. It doesn't matter how brilliant your performance is if it takes place in a pile of excrement like this. Can diCaprio ever wash the contamination off? I wonder. And it does not matter how clever you are as a director, if you direct something this disgusting, you deserve contempt for what you have done. Dante would hurl both of these men into the lowest rung of his Inferno as punishment for making this film, and they would both deserve to stay there.