Good Fellas Redux

Rating: 5/10 (20 January 2014)

In 2024 we'll ask: What was the name of that movie ten years ago that was "Good Fellas" with DiCaprio & stockbrokers instead of gangsters? In fact, 'Wolf' would be high plagiarism had it not been Scorcese self-aggrandizing: The sound track parallels GF identically to set mood and time frame. The martini lunch with McConaughey attempts an analogy with the GF "whadda mean funny" scene in its "over the top" script, but comes up short, far from 'the top' without Pesci's superior ad lib performance. Bad guys with poor educations laugh a lot, do drugs, cheat on their wives, eventually do themselves in with the feds' help. Whoddathunk? Why did that '90 ticket to GF cost me so much less?