Instant Favorite.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The movie just didn't touch me at all. I couldn't sympathize with the main character due lack of cause- What caused him to be the way he is. There are no flashbacks and almost no hints except he was in the marines and got an honorable discharge. Beyond that, the description for the movie includes the young prostitute. The problem with her is that she just... Doesn't fit being in the description at all. While being foreshadowed and shown in the start, she only held meaning and importance in the end, when our main character found where to put all his anger and frustration at. At the "company" she was working at, all because his assassination failed miserably. Except of frustration and anger and mental stability, there wasn't much to our main character. He had the Hero Complex, he thought himself to be a hero like in the movies. He had anger that fueled the complex. Beyond that- What's to him? Who is he as a person, aside of the complex and anger? What does he like? What was his dreams, aspirations? He's not that much of a character. I don't see this as a masterpiece. It's the first time I disagree on a movie that is known as a masterpiece by almost anyone who watched it.

This intelligent film showcases the talent of a young scorsese, as one of hollywood's most prominent and creative directors.

My Favourite Film Of All Time. Had The DVD Since 2006. Robert De Niro Is My Favourite Actor. I Have Over 40 Of His Films On DVD

Landmark neo-noir story about how a modern society of declining moral standards chips away at the sensibilities of the righteous and vulnerable with unpredictable results.