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It's good but not great. It has a couple of flaws.
I have no problems with extreme violence in a film if it adds to the story/characters, if it has a purpose in otherwords (ie "Scarface"). But Scorcese is a flawed director because he likes to add extreme violence for no good reason at all (he really should see a shrink). "Gangs of New York", for example, was just fucking disgusting. In "The Departed" there is a scene (I won't give it away) where out of the blue there is a burst of extreme violence three times in rapid succession. It was stupid, classic, recent Scorcese. In the theater I was in, people actually laughed out loud at the absurdity of the scene - not the reaction the director intended I think.
And there is a scene with deCaprio and Nicholson where, I read, Nicholson did some improvising involving a gun that wasn't supposed to be in the scene. You could easily tell which scene it was. The scene is out of place and doesn't work. With all due respect to Nicholson, the director should have put his foot down and had it redone properly, but instead it ended up in the film.
So it's flawed, but decent.
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