GLASTONBURYOFTHEMIND

Over reliance on caricature, is endemic in both. Kay as Penn in Carlito’s Way. Jack as the wide eyed drug fiend Paddy over the edge of the 60s nightmare. The sort a guy who swung tween Altamont bikers, Manson psychos and NIxon carpet bombers. Swearing surfeit - it wears, loses its affect. Scorsese has surrended his poetry, to so much mobile phone stuff and porocedural guff. Set up as an opera opening scene with Jack in silhouette moving thrugh corner store to the drugged langour of Gimme Shelter is immense. But thereafter the character portraits fail to live up to the bar. It all ends very messily, but a certain amount of “Fun” to be had in both.