MOVIE - GANGS OF NEW YORK - $$$$$ (OUT OF 10)
STARRING - Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis (Bill "The Butcher Poole"), Jim Broadbent, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson, Pete Postlethwaite, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Liam Carney, Stephen Graham, David Hemmings, Ford Keirnan, Gary Lewis, Gary McCormack, Devon Murray & Cara Seymour.
DIRECTED BY - Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver)
Gangs of New York is based on the 1928 historical account of this tumultuous period (1846-1863) in the history of New York by Herbert Asbury.
The opening sequence of Gangs of New York, a battle between two rival gangs, is intense, graphic and brilliantly staged. The same cannot be said about the remaining 2 1/2 hours of this epic.
The problem with Gangs of New York is that it doesn't stay focused on the Gangs. Scorsese attempt to captures every event that influenced New York at the time. Each of these themes, on their own, would make a compelling story. Cramming them all into one movie was a mistake.
Gangs of New York would have been an excellent movie if it had been an hour or more shorter and if it had stayed true to its title. As it is, I can only recommend this ambitious but flawed film, if you truly enjoy sitting in a movie theater for three hours.
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