“Mad Dog and Glory” is a Martin Scorcese production, and that much is clear when the opening scene contains a drug buy gone violently wrong. But you know what? I have to say that I’m not a huge Martin Scorcese fan. Seriously – I think he may be a little overrated. I mean, for every “Taxi Driver” he has a “New York, New York”. For every “Raging Bull” there’s “Kundun”. Let me just say that “Mad Dog and Glory” is no “Raging Bull”.
“Mad Dog and Glory” is about a cop that wants to be an artist (Robert DeNiro) and a mob boss that wants to be a comic (Bill Murray). Toss in the mob girlfriend (Uma Thurman) and you have what is supposed to be a good movie, right?
Wrong. Just not that good. It was nice to see Robert DeNiro actually portraying a character instead of falling into caricature (which Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino and DeNiro all do now – resting on their laurels, shall we say). But the writing was not interesting, the storyline was iffy and it barely kept my interest.
1 bad joke out of five.
