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Created Jul 08, 2007 01:45AM PST • Edited Oct 19, 2023 03:17PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Great 4.0

   High quality Scorsese with a bold faced cast operating at the top of their games, this movie misses serious greatness due to the ultimate absurdity of its plot and its numerous circoreality liberties.

4. Acting

   Great 4.0

5. Male Stars Perfect 5.0

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars Barely OK 2.0

8. Male Costars Perfect 5.0

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

11. Direction Great 4.0

12. Play Very Good 3.5

13. Music Great 4.0

14. Visuals Good 3.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Horrid 3.8

    Mean men acting meanly, and bad men talking badly.

17. Sex Innocent 1.5

18. Violence Monstrous 5.0

19. Rudeness Vile 5.0

21. Reality

    Glib 1.6

    Hardly real. Unlike Scorsese’s Goodfellas, this movie is based on another fictional movie, not on a true story. As such, it depends on extensive circumstantial reality sleights of hand.

22. Circumstantial Glib 2.0

23. Biological Glib 1.8

    Less than you might expect, and certainly less than a lesser director would require.

24. Physical Natural 1.0