He Likes to do Long Movies

Rating: 9/10 (28 November 2016)

While both Lewis and DiCaprio do a fantastic job in this movie it is quite long so make sure you have a healthy amount of popcorn for your movie watching. I love this movie do to the heritage that it has. I have always been one for Irish films or Irish based films. In this movie you see the clash of "clans" between the natives and the Irish. Dicaprio's father is murdered in a gang war at the beginning of the movie by native "The Butcher" played by Daniel Day-Lewis. Amsterdam (DiCaprio) is just a boy at the time and see's his fathers murder. The Natives men try to capture Amsterdam to raise him in there ways but he is quick to escape. Jumping forward in time after disappearing when he was younger Amsterdam comes back to seek revenge for his fathers death, creating a whole push and pull between the Butcher and Amsterdam. Amsterdam gains the Butchers trust and is let into his gang. It's not long before the Butcher realizes who Amsterdam is though. After he finds out its all out war yet again. I have always enjoyed both Day-Lewis's acting along with DiCaprio. They have always been exceptional actors and always play very calculated characters. I found this movie to be nothing short of one of their bests and I love the acting between the two. You could not have picked to better actors to put into a movie together. I only give this movie a 9 due to it's length. Now mind you I watched the long TV movie version so it ended up being around three hours long, but it is quite enjoyable to say the least.