Everything about this film was great, the cast, the acting, the plot (I know it's a remake), the directing, the score. When I look back at the classics that my father and mother watched, and which they then influenced me to watch. This is one of the films I can look on a few years and influence my kids to watch.
shareCompletely agree buddy, literally just finished watching this movie again after seeing it first time about 5 years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed it and was just mesmerized the whole time. It's very rare a film like this comes a long now days but it truly was astonishing and it may have even become my favourite movie.
shareyeah top 10 for sure... I think I have watched at least 2 times as many movies as the average person and this remains on the top 10.
shareGreat cast and great acting, yes. But the plot was meh
shareGreat cast and great acting, yes. But the plot was mehI thought it was the other-way-around. This film had a promising plot but the acting was phony or flat or forced from any number of participants. Hell, take your pick: Martin Sheen's and Wahlberg's scenes in particular were the worse (although the screenplay gives Wahlberg's character the coolest lines, despite the actor stiffly reciting them). DiCaprio's decent performance felt out of place in most scenes; they even came off as overacting in parts.
I didn't see any problem with the acting.
like that scene when the Baldwin character starts swinging on the guy after the sting goes wrong
not even making their eventual romance convincing
I was disappointed by this film - given its director and the actors involved. I just think the story was a little two-contrived for me - I didn't entirely buy it. I also think the actors didn't work all that well together - or maybe it was the lines they had to deliver, some of which seemed very familiar from watching other movies about police officers undercover and under pressure for various reasons.
I felt that the themes about corruption and duplicity were hammered home a little too vigorously (or obviously). The rats, for example.
It's not that I think anyone did a terrible job, but I just reacted to the movie by feeling that I was watching a movie - not like I was actually immersed in the events taking place.
My real name is Jeff
Agreed- as good as a movie can be made in my opinion
shareI'm so damn proud that I got to see it in theaters. Absolutely the best movie of my generation. Hands down.
shareIt was a good movie. The fake Boston accents and ball busting as like an SNL skit. I didn't like the end. Should of just had Costigan arrest Sullivan and have him do the walk of shame.
shareRe: Is this one of the near perfect films of our generation?