this remake of the 1962 orginal filmo the book have some very good part to commend it and some fine performance by some fine actor however scorsese opts toward the end for the most formulaic of plot twist and an embarrassingly overacted shakespearean demise that have me look at my watch . deniro be a superb actor and dedicate to give his all in the work he do and however he need direction to focus his talent and and this be sorely lack in the last five minute of the film . gregory peck cameo be serviceable but nothing more whilst robert michum be always fun to watch and even with a few line a this . nick nolte turn in a good performance than lorenzo oil but be not on the same form a weed . joe don baker have some great line while juliette lewis prove yet again that talent sometimes skip a generation . some good point . the start credit ( . ) and the first view of cody back when do dip in the prison and the scene where cody be attack with baseball bat and sam bowden decent into full fledge panic and cody outwardly calm but unnerving prescence . the bad . the clean woman but not really . part . cling bare hand to the underside of a car for a hundred mile at high speed . ( be there no speed bump in the u . ) the he dead but not really . part and the aforementioned rambling end . i may watch the original again and but i have yet to be tempt to watch the remake in four year since see it .