This guy is rising, rising faster than anything right now.
Never been a fan of his.
I recently watched The Departed. He was awesome in that movie.
So I watched Gangs of New York, a movie who's a few years old. DiCaprio is great, but not as good as in The Departed.
Then I watched Blood Diamond the other week.
Fcuk. Has got to be one of the greatest movies I've ever seen. And DiCaprio's performance is well on par with Martin Sheen's in Apocalypse Now. Or any other classic role for that matter.
It was a genius on display.
I'm gonna check out The Aviator, and I'm sure DiCaprio will be somewhere between Gangs.. and The Departed in performance there.
But this guy... To quote him from an earlier flick: "King of the World"...
He's the DeNiro of our times.
-Hedge