Pirate
07-01-2007, 04:55 PM
I just finished watching this movie and it ended with me shouting at the screen. "WHAT?! WHAT?!" and that's when this movie came crashing down. Directed by Martin Scorsese, staring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen and produced by Brad Pitt. This movie should have gone off in a good way. But for me at least, it’s not a movie I would recommend.
The quick and short of the movie is this. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a disgraced ex-cop who's been kicked off the force for being a bastard. He goes to jail and thanks to his crooked family background he's recruited by a mad Irish gangster played by Jack Nicholson. Everything is going to plan as he’s actually an undercover cop and that's where his bosses played by Martin Sheen and Mark Wahlberg want him to be. Bwahahaha, unknown to them the mad Irish gangster has a mole of his own in their very own department who's played by Matt Damon.
So, this should turn out to be a very interesting story. And it is, right up to the part where it's meant to get exciting. I think around that time someone got out the bongs because the movie jumps to wtf mode. Double crosses and awesome violence does break out. But it feels like Monty Pythons salad day's sketch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Peckinpah's_%22Salad_Days%22). I swear at one stage they just threw a bucket of blood on DiCaprio's pants. But, special effects don't make a movie so I ignored it.
What killed this movie came on during the final moments. I am totally cool with the suspension of belief for movies. Especially when they want to be a little off the wall. But this movie doesn't try to do this. It wants to be gritty like real life. But in the end you're sitting there thinking, there is no way in the world that a cop would do that. Unfortunately I'm going to have to use a spoiler to explain what I mean. Click if you must.
In the ending scenes when the good cop (DiCaprio) goes for his payout and notices the envelope on Matt Damon’s desk, why did he run away? The evidence was there right in front of him and he could have exposed the rat right there. But no, he had to meet him in a deserted building to arrest him and then take him in. Am I meant to believe this? And what was the deal with deleting his file even after a whole entire department had seen him?
It all looks like the makers sat down toward the end of production and over a few cones said "Hey, how can we REALLY mess with their heads?". Freaking stoners.
The quick and short of the movie is this. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a disgraced ex-cop who's been kicked off the force for being a bastard. He goes to jail and thanks to his crooked family background he's recruited by a mad Irish gangster played by Jack Nicholson. Everything is going to plan as he’s actually an undercover cop and that's where his bosses played by Martin Sheen and Mark Wahlberg want him to be. Bwahahaha, unknown to them the mad Irish gangster has a mole of his own in their very own department who's played by Matt Damon.
So, this should turn out to be a very interesting story. And it is, right up to the part where it's meant to get exciting. I think around that time someone got out the bongs because the movie jumps to wtf mode. Double crosses and awesome violence does break out. But it feels like Monty Pythons salad day's sketch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Peckinpah's_%22Salad_Days%22). I swear at one stage they just threw a bucket of blood on DiCaprio's pants. But, special effects don't make a movie so I ignored it.
What killed this movie came on during the final moments. I am totally cool with the suspension of belief for movies. Especially when they want to be a little off the wall. But this movie doesn't try to do this. It wants to be gritty like real life. But in the end you're sitting there thinking, there is no way in the world that a cop would do that. Unfortunately I'm going to have to use a spoiler to explain what I mean. Click if you must.
In the ending scenes when the good cop (DiCaprio) goes for his payout and notices the envelope on Matt Damon’s desk, why did he run away? The evidence was there right in front of him and he could have exposed the rat right there. But no, he had to meet him in a deserted building to arrest him and then take him in. Am I meant to believe this? And what was the deal with deleting his file even after a whole entire department had seen him?
It all looks like the makers sat down toward the end of production and over a few cones said "Hey, how can we REALLY mess with their heads?". Freaking stoners.