Caught this the other day. I also thought it was VERY good, almost tempted to say Scorsese's best film, certainly much better that that Aviator crap. Scorsese really knows how to bring the best out in people, Di Caprio did a fine job, as did Matt Damon. Nicholson gave the performance of a lifetime and I was also very impressed with Mark Wahlberg, David O'Hara and Vera Farmiga. Now there's a film that puts Tarantino in his place. The only thing I can fault it on is perhaps its cuts too quickly between scenes, but I guess that is to help fit the whole plot, which is very complex, into a cinematic form. Nice to see a gangster film where every isn't speaking like italian mafioso.10/10

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Excellent film with some great performances ( especially Dicaprio's he was awesome ) but the worst American accent i've heard in a long time by Ray Winstone .
I thought a lot of the accents were deliberately like that, to give the impression of Irish/english/scots ex-pats living over there. I think it really added a great sinister aura to some of the characters that made the film all the more vivid and frightening. I have a few relatives (so-called) and acquiantances from scotland who live over there and they have similarly bad america accents.
I thought Winstone was terrific in it, best performance I've seen by him.