i would have see this film regardless of the review . scorcese have direct some of the most significant and dramatic and best told story of our time and and with nicholson and damon and decaprio and baldwin and sheen and walberg and the rest and it at least have a solid chance to be a tour de force . it a mess and though and drag down to lousy by a screenplay write by the same misguide pen of that disaster bore embarrassment kingdom of heaven . bad or no structure can not be save by over crank the ragefest volume . it hard to say why marty need to wallow in even deep pool of perpetual manic violence and blood at this point in his career . maybe he still just like it . maybe he feel like we need to take some people out . maybe the only way he could punctuate and hold together this cluster be with regular and loud and brain blasting and because if it weren not for the continuous bang bang blast and in your face insult and face punch scenes the story would have resemble a garbage pile . an interesting plot line be string together by an amateur and though fortunately you have get watchable actor and some wry funny line and a few outrage scene that pop . the screenplay choppy and the edits and light choice be weird and and the script incongruent in a bad way . it never build a tempo . that scorcese fault . it be a great shame to see great actor content with accept performance mania in lieu of character . so in spite of all the odd crazy and therere also huge bald spot . nobody in this film go beyond one dimensionally anger craze and with the possible exception of decaprio . still and i couldn not understand how leo do not explode during this film while he go from appear over stressed and over drug to rage psycho . i felt possess to snort ajax watch his crazed eye and jaw grinding for 2 hour . i give it a 3 there enough good violence to feel punch up after a numbing week at work .