( when will i ever learn . ) the ecstatic reviewer on npr make me think this turkey be another citizen kane . please allow me to vent my spleen . i will admit represent the setting and presumably new york city and have never be so downright ugly and unappealing . i be remind that the 70 be a bad decade for men fashion and automobile . and all the smoking . if the plan be to cheapen the character and it succeed . for a film to work ( at least and in my simple estimation ) and there have to be at least one sympathetic character . only ned beaty come close and and i could not wait for him to finish off nicky . if a stray shot have strike mikey and well and it may have elicit a shrug of indifference at the most . i can not remember when i detest a film a strongly . i suppose i be a rube who doesn not dig art flick . oh and well .