A good movie

Way before Leonardo DiCaprio became one of the most interesting actors of his generation thanks to a bunch of great movies directed by Martin Scorsese and even before he became a massive teen idol with ‘Titanic’, he actually got his breakthrough with this feature. On top of that, you didn't get only to see a very young DiCaprio shining here but also the great Robert De Niro (at the time, De Niro was still doing some pretty good job and he wasn’t only focusing on getting some fat paychecks). So, it was quite an awesome clash of two acting monsters from 2 different generations and those guys did a terrific job. To be honest, the plot was a little too pederstrian and predictable to be truly remarkable but it was entertaining enough and those guys were just great and rather spellbinding to behold. Eventually, DiCaprio will definitely break down the house with ‘What's Eating Gilbert Grape’ (still easily his best performance so far) and the rest is pretty much history. To conclude, even though I don’t think it is really a masterpiece, it still a very solid drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10