Over acted, repetitive, every scene and the film itself too long

Rating: 1/10 (18 January 2014)

A group of us watched this film with high expectations, but by a third of the way through everybody seemed to be shuffling in their seats with the repetitive boredom of it all; but no-one daring to actually say out loud what they were thinking. It seemed to be an over indulgent love-in of quality actors overplaying everything, the director trying to show off how fast he could get the cast to talk over each other with irrelevant excruciatingly long conversations of no interest to anybody except presumably the writer; and every character a ridiculous overplayed cartoon cutout. Even the steadfast investigating cop had to become a wisecracking Caprio mark 2 when the pair finally got together for their "showdown". The movie ground on relentlessly with orgy and coke snorting scenes: OK, we've seen you can do that: please can we have some plot now and learn in much more detail how he got to the top and how he fell from grace? A waste of too much time.