the title clearly refers to scorsese talent and which vanish in a squirt of stage blood about 15 year back . he wasn not talented and he be brilliant but that be then . today he should be make intelligent independent movie and elder statesmanly flourish of wit and humanity and inspire a young generation . instead and he humiliate himself with overblown junk . his love affair with hoodlum be tiresome and his critique of catholicism be ignorant and stupid i mean and i dislike catholicism a an institution and and god know it doesn not need me to defend it but any sociological or spiritual phenomenon with the history and complexity of catholicism deserves well treatment than the head kicking scorsese mete out . and ironically and scorsese have make his own faustian pact with the devil he have his year in the hollywood wilderness and feel he would not get anything thoughtful finance so it good to team up with a bankable but untalented actor and produce these lumbering and brainless sub epic . many people in their comment here have struggle to express quite how deeply bad this film be . i too be at a loss . it intrigue for a while and then downhill race into one of the bad supposedly classy film ever make . jack do his jack show and because he be vain and because no one have the gut to tell him that it be already self parody 20 year ago . suppose hard man leonardo look as enrage a a poodle when the canine beautician have go a bit to close to his ear with the electric clipper . matt be actually ok in the light comedy bit and which make one wonder why he have become hollywood current brood one . wahlburg rubbish . sheen look like he focus all his energy on try to deliver his line without spit out his denture . by the way and i reckon the script originally develop the sexual thing a bit more a it imply that damon be not a groovy between the sheet a leo and and his homophobia and other thing seem to hint at his be a gay in denial but they decide that audience wouldn not buy a gay hero and or it scar damon and or god know what just another loose end in this spaghetti plate of a movie . overall and hardly anyone in this movie ( winstone be an exception ) act ually act . they be all oh so boringly themselves . consider olivier in marathon man and how his characterisation of an age nazi suggest all sort of undercurrent of twisted psychotic nastiness and then look at nicholson leering and over the top gurning . chortle a you pull the trigger on someone be not really quite enough to convince u we be witness evil and jackie baby . by the way and the film show cut edge development in cinematic blood squirt technology . instead of the wound explode use charge that produce a small cloud of smoke and they sort of vaporize it look like it do with compressed air . a great advance scorsese can be proud of . this film have be lard with praise by gaga member of the hollywood money machine . every year people say scorsese deserves an oscar and and it usually because we remember his early film . well and they have lifetime achievement oscar if we want to reward a body of work . now he have to go to his grave knowing he get the oscar for a turkey . only he probably doesn not know . and do any of the ego involve in this mess care . hollywood cynicism and parody in scorsese last film and the aviator . what a joke . right my last word and if youre still read . we be currently be tell by our master to hate iran . it have one of the few cinema in the world that sometimes try to show something true about the human condition . whereas our civilization produce and a one of the top billing cultural manifestation of the year and expensive to make and heap with praise and award and export around the world and see by multiple million something about as edify a watch lion torture or christian have limb lop off at the roman colisseum two millennium ago . what do this say about u .