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Title: More Ugliness from Scorsese
Review: "Could it have been any nastier?" Those were my words upon walking out of the theater after seeing this raunchy, bloody mess of a movie that could just as well have been called "Gangs of Boston." The killings got so absurd toward the end that many in the audience broke out laughing. Scorsese decides all the main characters have to die a grisly death and ends with a nihilistic image that I suppose perfectly ties together the nihilism of this film. Jack Nicholson's performance aside, there's very little of anything to recommend in this excessive, overdone, failed attempt at a thriller. The plot twists get preposterous, and the relentless nastiness gets insufferable after about an hour.
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