Martin Scorsese has finally found his ideal good fellow

Rating: 8/10 (29 March 2014)

The story in this movie closely resembles some other Scorsese's works like Good Fellows, Casino. A guy who has chosen to follow a not so law-abiding path, then he gets to incredible heights, lots of money, drugs and women, and then the FBI is at his door, and he faces imprisonment. Only this time our guy is clearly a good guy - from the point of view of Scorsese, of course. The guy even saves his unfaithful friend from certain death while being paralyzed by drugs and under a threat of imprisonment himself - how much holier can you get? BTW Leonardo Di Caprio plays perfectly as always. Lots of completely naked women, drunk and stoned sex, including on the bed of money. Very rich show, pleasure to look. And our holy perfect guy is so good that he even goes through jail without much trouble and even stays in black afterward. And all this due to his incredible sales skills that allow him to fool simple people. Well... OK. I still cannot see this kind of guy as a hero.