a great movie,but with something missing

Rating: 10/10 (1 March 2005)

I'm a big martin Scorsese fan, I saw most of his movies as taxi driver, raging bull, cape fear, AOI, king of comedy, good-fellas but my most favourite ones are CASINO and GANGS OF NEWYORK.
I still remember the first time i went to see the movie in theatre, as the first scene rolls by i felt that there is something special about that movie, the cinematography is at its best especially when the camera takes us through the FIVE POINTS and during the first fight when priest Vallon dies, the white landscape of the snowy streets contaminated with red color of blood, some of the best graphic scenes accompanied with the great score running in the background makes that one of the best fight scenes i ever saw.
Daniel Day Lewis gives an academy award worth performance as William cutting(BILL THE BUTCHER), he makes you feel that he is a real butcher especially in the way he deals with knives.There is a scene in which he talks to Leo(priest Vallon's son)and he tells him about the death of the last honorable man that he killed(Leo's father),I consider that the best scene of the whole movie where the whole idea is summed up by bill :"FEAR".
Leonardo gives a great performance,maybe his greatest after the AVIATOR,that movie made me become a fan after my dislike to his role in TITANIC.
another thing that makes that movie a great rush is the production design,it takes you back to the days in which the events takes place in a perfect way,It,alongside with the costumes, make you feel like you are watching a DICKEN's novel except that it is set in new york not Victorian London.
one drawback is the length of the movie, i felt that the second part of the movie is separate than its first one
that is a great movie worth watching and understanding..........9.8 out of 10.