Excellent acting and writing, but another Scorcese repetition......

Rating: Null/10 (19 January 2018)

The conclusion first: Another movie by Scorcese that is wildly repetivitive. It reminded me of gangs of new York in this regard. While I thought the acting of the two leads was impressive and actually liked the script, it was way, way too long. Cinematically it did not need to hammer home the same thing over and over and over; much the way gangs of NY did wiih violence. I just got tired of watching the same thing. For example the scene where Jordan is too high to get to his car to leave the country club.I do not know how long that lasted, but did we need to watch every centimeter of his travel to the car? That is just one example. Had an editor done his or her job (I would guess Martin did the editing) it would have been much better. Again I thought it was well written and acted, but for too many things dragged on scene after scene. The highs were high but the lows were low..