A Collection of uninspired scenes...

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2004)

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Gangs of New York - I didn't like it. Too confusing, too uninspired, no rational basis for any motivations. The ONLY good character and the ONLY character in the movie who has ANY kind of "Morality" is the Bad Guy, The Butcher! And we are supposed to believe that he is somehow morally equivalent to Amsterdam, the upstart boy harboring a 16 yer old spurious grudge. Get off it! His Daddy was killed in honorable battle, under honorable conditions, The Butcher did everything to show that he WAS honored. What's the basis of this grudge?
Historical accuracy aside, the movie would have been valuable alone by telling about the times in and around the draft riots in N.Y. That alone would have made the movie worth watching. The rest of the disjointed and completely UNBELIEVABLE trivia going on in the movie (any scene containing Decaprio or what's her name...) is nothing but fluff...