If it was not his worst movie, it is scary to contemplate something worse.
I simply could not have given this anything but a 1. Negative scores were not available. If they had, I'd have given it a negative 5 or 6.
From the opening moments, the over-theatricalization of this film was cartoonish. Every scene in the ER was packed with concentrated on-camera ridiculousness. Every over-loaded cliché about "how hard life is in the Big City" was compressed into the waiting room - people yelling at anyone and everyone, blood all over the place, rudeness piled upon rudeness, and everyone a Puerto-Rican, a black or a loser/street person/alcoholic/druggie/psycho - or some combination of the above.
The makeup was unbelievably bad.
The dialog was written by whom? My god, the worst, most over-the-top in any movie in recent memory. The actors must have asked for bonus pay, just to be required to utter such stupidity.
The driving scenes may have been the worst of all. Cage went several seconds on several occasions without even looking at where the vehicle was going. All this while his driving had the steering wheel movements enough to have crashed into cars on both sides of the street. And the psychotic, sociopathic qualities of the characters.
The actors must have been originally glad to be cast in a Scorcese film, but with this movie they must all cringe when they see themselves in it.
This movie's overall quality is something below "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." While some readers may take that as a compliment, I assure you I meant it as a scurrilous comment.
To paraphrase the line from "Billy Madison," everyone here is dumber for having watched this; I award it no points, and may God have mercy on Scorcese's soul.
Were I able to give this a minus score, I would have.
An utter waste of time. I only watched it through to the end because a friend's film discussion group was going to discuss it and invited me, so I felt obligated to watch it all. The comments by others were quite decent, so since I was new to the group, I just shut my mouth so as not to seem like an a**hole. It was, "Oh, Scorcese!" this and "Oh, Scorcese!" that. I wanted to puke.
This movie is just BAD. Had it been a Weird Al Yankovic movie I could see the silly characterizations. I expected WAAAAY more out of Martin Scorcese.
I simply could not have given this anything but a 1. Negative scores were not available. If they had, I'd have given it a negative 5 or 6.
From the opening moments, the over-theatricalization of this film was cartoonish. Every scene in the ER was packed with concentrated on-camera ridiculousness. Every over-loaded cliché about "how hard life is in the Big City" was compressed into the waiting room - people yelling at anyone and everyone, blood all over the place, rudeness piled upon rudeness, and everyone a Puerto-Rican, a black or a loser/street person/alcoholic/druggie/psycho - or some combination of the above.
The makeup was unbelievably bad.
The dialog was written by whom? My god, the worst, most over-the-top in any movie in recent memory. The actors must have asked for bonus pay, just to be required to utter such stupidity.
The driving scenes may have been the worst of all. Cage went several seconds on several occasions without even looking at where the vehicle was going. All this while his driving had the steering wheel movements enough to have crashed into cars on both sides of the street. And the psychotic, sociopathic qualities of the characters.
The actors must have been originally glad to be cast in a Scorcese film, but with this movie they must all cringe when they see themselves in it.
This movie's overall quality is something below "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." While some readers may take that as a compliment, I assure you I meant it as a scurrilous comment.
To paraphrase the line from "Billy Madison," everyone here is dumber for having watched this; I award it no points, and may God have mercy on Scorcese's soul.
Were I able to give this a minus score, I would have.
An utter waste of time. I only watched it through to the end because a friend's film discussion group was going to discuss it and invited me, so I felt obligated to watch it all. The comments by others were quite decent, so since I was new to the group, I just shut my mouth so as not to seem like an a**hole. It was, "Oh, Scorcese!" this and "Oh, Scorcese!" that. I wanted to puke.
This movie is just BAD. Had it been a Weird Al Yankovic movie I could see the silly characterizations. I expected WAAAAY more out of Martin Scorcese.