No Sandler you are not Pacino. No Safdi whoever you are you are not Scorsese or whoever you want to be. Good films create characters you care about not shrill monotonous hysterical soulless characters like this one. I tried really hard to keep watching this and boy it was hard work. The fact that so much acclaim has been poured on it is mystifying.Ridiculous. Its tasteless vile,loud and most of all deeply boring for which there are no excuses. Meretricious and sad.