I am sorry to say that Scorsese finally made a terrible mistake. He went ahead and made a remake of his two previous masterpieces, Goodfellas and Casino and sort of made fun of himself, which could have worked, but comes awfully close to failing. Explanation: The movie has very little to say, other than there are people who think it's fun to be bad guys.
Let me also point out that although the movie feels like a Scorsese movie, there is not that immediate sense of emotions that you almost always get from a Scorsese film. Here it almost feels like Scorsese is saying, well I finally won on Oscar, so to hell with all you. The movie almost feels like a big wind up with no release.
There is an appalling amount of scenes that go on forever until I finally said to myself, enough already. It starts almost at the beginning, where we are introduced to Matt Mcconaughey. It's an inspired bit of casting and you have got to admire him for sending himself up as really weird. But as the scene goes on it, it goes on and on. Another one is where DiCaprio is giving his pep talk. It reminds me of the speech from Glengarry Glen Ross, just stretched out endlessly.
But enough. I don't want to trash Scorsese, because he is the most influential filmmaker in the world. Let me put it this way: Nice try, but you have to make a story that's different the next time.
Let me also point out that although the movie feels like a Scorsese movie, there is not that immediate sense of emotions that you almost always get from a Scorsese film. Here it almost feels like Scorsese is saying, well I finally won on Oscar, so to hell with all you. The movie almost feels like a big wind up with no release.
There is an appalling amount of scenes that go on forever until I finally said to myself, enough already. It starts almost at the beginning, where we are introduced to Matt Mcconaughey. It's an inspired bit of casting and you have got to admire him for sending himself up as really weird. But as the scene goes on it, it goes on and on. Another one is where DiCaprio is giving his pep talk. It reminds me of the speech from Glengarry Glen Ross, just stretched out endlessly.
But enough. I don't want to trash Scorsese, because he is the most influential filmmaker in the world. Let me put it this way: Nice try, but you have to make a story that's different the next time.