2002

June 30, 2004
DVD
USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands
English / Gaelic
166 minutes

America Was Born In The Streets -- THE GANGS OF NEW YORK.

I found it to be overly long. Well acted, especially by Daniel Day Lewis, but ultimately unsatisfying. Dark and violent, which is usually fine with me, but in this case I didn't feel any connection with the characters. Scorsese is a master with the angles as usual. Nice use of Mr. Gabriel's "Signal To Noise" without words during the first battle. Probably most interesting to me in its history lessons. DiCaprio should just give up on the accent for all future films.

7.2 Critical Consensus
***^ Ebert
*** Berardinelli