Gangs of New York may achieve greatness with time. Mixed reviews were inevitable for a production of this great (and the disorder in the wings), but it is so noble as any of Martin Scorsese is best known stories of New York. Its astonishing 1846 prologue to the riots in the city infernal project of 1863, the film tries to erase the decorum of textbooks and chronicle 19th-century New York as a cauldron of street warfare. The hostility is embodied in a tale of revenge between the primitive Irish American Amsterdam Vallon Sun (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his father's ruthless killer and "Nativist" gang leader Bill "The Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis, brutally inspired), named after his fatal talent with knives. Vengeance is only marginally convincing Vallon, DiCaprio is probably fiasco, and Cameron Diaz (Vallon's pickpocket lover) is adrift in a film with little use for women.
Despite these weaknesses, Scorsese's mastery blossoms in his expert fusion of personal and political trajectories; This is American history written in blood, unflinching, authentic and absolutely beautiful. -Jeff Shannon
Despite these weaknesses, Scorsese's mastery blossoms in his expert fusion of personal and political trajectories; This is American history written in blood, unflinching, authentic and absolutely beautiful. -Jeff Shannon
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