Lots of productions don't try to please the audience. Yet they try to do something. Here I don't know what Scorsese is trying to do except possibly indulging in his stale world view.
I'm not pleased. I've just been vaguely appeased only in the last 30 minutes.
I don't think anyone remotely similar to the characters here depicted ever existed. I can pretend they did and yet the result proves totally pointless.
Don't get me wrong: I'm sure that minorities have been unforgivably exploited and violated through history. I just doubt that it happened in this way - despite this story being based on "history".
Greed, violence, weakness, irrationality: even though they might be (the) crucial gears of history, I don't think it's possible to live solely by such arid motives like these characters do here: I can't suspend the disbelief over what we are offered.
So Scorsese takes 2:15 hours - which is more than you would bear the average movie - to create perfectly dislikable baddies and gives us 1 hour to enjoy the necessary retribution. Despite the production quality I don't think this is a great way to spend 2 evenings of your life.
I'm not pleased. I've just been vaguely appeased only in the last 30 minutes.
I don't think anyone remotely similar to the characters here depicted ever existed. I can pretend they did and yet the result proves totally pointless.
Don't get me wrong: I'm sure that minorities have been unforgivably exploited and violated through history. I just doubt that it happened in this way - despite this story being based on "history".
Greed, violence, weakness, irrationality: even though they might be (the) crucial gears of history, I don't think it's possible to live solely by such arid motives like these characters do here: I can't suspend the disbelief over what we are offered.
So Scorsese takes 2:15 hours - which is more than you would bear the average movie - to create perfectly dislikable baddies and gives us 1 hour to enjoy the necessary retribution. Despite the production quality I don't think this is a great way to spend 2 evenings of your life.