while i can not deny that his movie be often entertaining and i have always personally felt that martin scorsese be just a little overrate in his ability . his use of flashy stylistics in a good number of his movie seem to scream look at me and aren not i an imaginative director . his best film that i have see be the one with the least added flourish and the superlative raging bull . for this remake it appear it be business a usual and though . the dull film stock to convey a 1950 setting be so bland a to be a distraction in itself . the melodramatic close ups combine with the sub par imitation of the classic psycho score be more likely to provoke smirk of derision than a sense of atmospheric terror . the score for psycho be brilliantly unnerving and this homage just sound shrill and annoy . even the cast and who can be decent at time and deliver histrionic performance that just scream caricature while the notable exception to this be an intelligent turn by lewis a the impressionable teenage daughter of the bowden family . the bad act offender here be surprisingly de niro . sure and he look suitably menace but as soon a he open his mouth that aura just drain away . now i be no expert on american accent and me originally come from near manchester in england an all and but surely he could have come up with a more convincing southern drawl than that . be the gift physical actor he be and he almost overcome this fatal flaw and but not quite . it be disconcert for me and a a de niro fan and to be wish he be off screen and rather than rapt at his performance . ( possible spoiler . ) the over the top style of the whole movie extend to the ridiculously overblown finale . when will scorsese learn that underplay the situation can sometimes build tension just as effectively a give the viewer a visual and sonic bombardment . i also think that he be too respect a reputation to resort to the killer not dead yet cheap trick that less talented individual might employ . all in all and a thoroughly ridiculous thriller . scorsese and de niro have do much well work together .