I don't think Scorsese was ever planned to be apart of the production; I do know that they had originally hired a seperate director who had an issue with the script or something, and eventually quit. Thus DePalma signed on.

Now, to be honest I thought this was over-rated, and over-hyped. Don't get me wrong -- it was good, I own the giftset and all, but don't expect me to have the same opinion if Pacino was not present in the cast (or at least replaced with an equal or greater replacement), then don't expect my little but present fan-dom to still exist. A De Niro/Scorsese version would have been interesting.

Otherwise, I feel that it was just missing something. Pacino's acting and DePalma's directing/vision was great, and the script could have gone places, but it was a little one-dimentional. It just seemed like an excuse to kill off several characters for no reason at all. And the mother -- she started off with a good story and contribution to the movie, but they gave her all of about 10 minutes at most on the screen. They deffinatly could have enhanced the movie by exploring Tony's family life, and maybe a bit further into his marriage and how his life was affected by his proffesion. Yeah, yeah, in the end it killed him, but that was just stubborness and deffiance of his limits and authority.

I'd give it 2.5/5 stars.