Monday, October 09, 2006


Don't really feel like piling on with the huzzahs greeting Scorsese's latest--Damon and Decaprio are merely adequate and Nicholson is indulged to little effect (role should have gone to enforcer Ray Winstone, who can plausibly manage physical intimidation, well out of Nicholson's range always) & o I'm already sick of the perfect patterns of CGI exit wounds and the endless parade of golden oldies BUT Mark Wahlberg and Alec Baldwin are worth the price of the ticket and then some. Baldwin is a reliable hoot, but Wahlberg tucks the movie up under his arm and walks off with it...you could feel the audience perk up every time he was on screen...