People didn't really look at this film for what it was

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2003)

Ok, Gangs of New York wasn't the masterpiece that we all expected but it is by far not that bad as everyone makes out. Scorsese did a great job and even though I wanted there to be a battle at the end of the film between the two gangs, I am glad that there wasn't because it didn't end in a big hollywood mess, it ended in a good fashion. The cinematography alone was just amazing, set direction is good as it is gonna get, the acting talents of Day Lewis and Broadbent were fantastic along with Di Caprio and Diaz. The story was amazing till we got to the Draft Riots where I thought it concentrated on the riots more than the feud between the Dead Rabitts and The Natives, thats where the film went wrong because it just became a different film towards the end, because whilst watching the riots I became so enthrilled, when it came to the end so called battle I was like oh yeah I forgot about that lot. Don't get me wrong I loved the Riots scenes and the whole morse code voice over, but it wasn't dealt with very well and the end parts of the film do look rushed, I can just imagine Harvey Weinstein sitting behind Scorsese and Thelma Scoonmkaer disturbing them to just get the film finnished.
But like many other great films, this could have been so much better, but i think we should appreciate that one Scorsese might get up and try to re edit and release the full cut. I actually heard that Scorsese was happy with the Orginal cut and didn't want to do anything else to it to clean it up, can someone please tell me it is not true.