| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Won | Oscar | Best Achievement in Directing Martin Scorsese |
| Best Achievement in Film Editing Thelma Schoonmaker | |||
| Best Motion Picture of the Year Graham King | |||
| Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay William Monahan | |||
| Nominated | Oscar | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Mark Wahlberg | |
Warner Bros.
Directed by Martin Scorsese
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)
Matt Damon plays a cop who works for the city's most wanted drug kingpin. Leonardo DiCaprio plays an undercover cop working for the same drug kingpin. Damon and DiCaprio spend the movie trying to discover the identity of the other one. It's a long, tiring, cell-phone centric plot that stretches the limits of believability. Nicholson as the city's most wanted criminal is a stereotype of every mafia don in the history of movies. It's a violent, foul-mouthed film in which nobody comes out alive, neither the good guys nor the bad guys. It feels more like a parody of gangster movies, not what Scorsese was trying to accomplish, in what is probably a great director's worst film, and ironically the one that finally got him the best picture Oscar.
No comments:
Post a Comment