Beautifully filmed and acted, as always with Scorcese, but ruined by a rambling, unfocused, incoherent script that was presumably supposed to give a more in depth picture of the clash of two cultures than the usual cowboys and injuns stuff, but was an hour too long and so full of disconnected scenes and irrelevant secondary characters that the story got lost amongst the maze of bewildering plotlines.
Furthermore there seems to be a confusion of character in that the two male leads are portrayed as basically sympathetic men struggling with their own demons, but emerge in fact as cold-blooded ruthless killers with no real redeeming features!
Furthermore there seems to be a confusion of character in that the two male leads are portrayed as basically sympathetic men struggling with their own demons, but emerge in fact as cold-blooded ruthless killers with no real redeeming features!