Crime pays

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2014)

This movie is two and a half hours of drugs and excess and greed and half an hour of decline and fall - but not too hard. In the end the hero even rats on all his friends and we just keep on lovin' him. If this movie pretended to say something about the dark side of the American dream, Scorcese is too fascinated to say it. Fellini did this kind of decadent stuff a lot better. The acting is good. DiCaprio puts a lot of energy into his character and keeps the narcissism coming. Jonah Hill plays the jerk to perfection. Everybody else does good. Unfortunately Rob Reiner and Kyle Chandler are underused. They are both good actors that could have added some depth and honesty, but drugs and hookers are more fun.