Sorry for the clickbait (this is obviously a great movie 😉), but with this review I want to announce that I will delete this profile and continue my Letterboxd activities on this new account:
I know that I'll lose a huuuuge amount of followers because of this, but I planned to do this for a long time now and I just don't want to wait longer.
There are several reasons behind it, mostly because this account is just a…
It's fine. Pretty underwhelming concerning all the hype, but still fine. It's nice to see Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel and Jesse Plemons in a movie together. And the cinematography does offer some nice long takes.
The problem is that it is by FAR not as interesting, fun, surprising, well-written or memorable as the great films in Scorsese's filmography like Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas and Casino. It also has no rights to be longer than…
Haters gonna hate, but from one scene in the last half hour until now while I'm writing this review I cried so fucking much. With trailers which showed almost nothing except the first 20 minutes, there was no way I could have been prepared for this.
This movie had everything I was looking forward to and even more.
The humor always worked, one action sequence is more exciting than anything I've ever seen, the visuals are... Fuck it, there's no…
4 /10
Slow pacing doesn't work in a revenge thriller for me. This is just disappointing and not even close to the brilliant Oldboy (2003).
Yeah, the acting is mostly great, the story is pretty good and there are some well-made brutal scenes, but for the most parts I was just bored & annoyed...
