Wanted to like it more!

Rating: Null/10 (28 December 2002)

As a huge movie buff, fan of Martin Scorsese and many of the actors featured in this film, I was all ready to be rewarded for waiting 4 days after it opened to see this movie. I found Daniel Day Lewis once again outstanding as Bill the Butcher-this is an actor with so much range...I certainly could not buy Leonardo in the role of a meany.He was terrific in What's eating Gilbert Grape, but here...no. The movie was overly long, although I have loved many longer movies in the past.It was gory and violent, I didn't even mind that. The real problem was that the story failed to capture my interest.It was hard to understand or hear a lot of the dialog and there were many pretentious declarations uttered in ominous soto voices that were just plain silly.I felt let down by the whole movie, but would stop short of saying it sucked because the atmosphere , the history, and Daniel Day Lewis kept it from being a total waste of time.