fullheadofsteam
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Saw this movie when it was originally theatrically released. Knew then what a great film it was. Have just now watched it again in bluray. It is cinematically brilliant and gorgeous to watch. If you haven't seen this exceptional film recently, please do so - it is simply what a film masterpiece should be!
Usually I find that user ratings on IMDB of movies are a bit too high. In the case if user ratings for this film, currently at 8.5, the overall rating is 1.5 points too low! This is simply a cinematic masterpiece, period. No movie in history has ever been filmed as if in one long, uncut scene! Genius and ground-breaking film making. Breathtaking cinematography. Grit and beauty and reality of war, through the lens of the Director's personal knowledge passed from his own grandfather. Tear-jerking, heart-wrenching, pulsating tension, individuals persevering through an ever changing and huge landscape of war and the unknown - this is an epic brilliantly made for the big screen experience - bold yet nuanced. There was no better film released in 2019, and the fact that overall IMDB rating is anything less than 10 can only speak on behalf of those persons rating this film who have not closely followed and watched films from the silents to today, evaluating story first and foremost, then in close conjunction with directing, acting, cinematography, sets and sound. This movie is exquisitely detailed in every aspect of story-telling and film making. Thank you, Sam Mendes!
Be prepared and aware! This is in our day and age an exceptionally long film, so if you are not well rested wait until you are!! That said, this is in fact Scorsese's triumph of his mafia boss films. In particular he realizes and presents real life mobsters, while bringing out their nuances which few gangster films, if any, try to realize and successfully show on film! This includes the brilliant, as in New York/New Jersey speak and intellect, pitch perfect. Violence serves solely as punctuation, dialogue all-important, and the best-defined gangsters we have ever seen. Based on real life gangsters, arguably questionable confession, and what should be admittedly and pathetic inaccurate portrayal of prison life, Martin Scorsese brings us out of Coppola's gangster heyday to the elderly demise of that culture and characters.