made-for-tv movie style cliches, kevin kosner, shit music, corny morality. What was he thinking with the stairway sequence? "Hmm, crime movie with Deniro, I think I'll put a shot-for-shot remake of Battleship Pomtomkin here." It could have been fun dumb entertainment, but he had to go for overblown dumbness.

Having learned to stay away from Depalma, I can't say I'm an expert on his movies. In what I've seen I notice a lot of references to classic films similar to Tarantino, who did them either with more flair, or with natural subtlety