Good film, but with flaws.

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2014)

This is a short review and it contains spoilers so don't read this if you haven't seen 'Gangs of New York'.
I enjoyed this film a lot, but there are a few points I have that affected my rating on it, I have a short list below of negative points I'd like to mention.
1. The movies is too long, there were a lot of scenes in there that really wasn't necessary to move the story forward, yet the movie is nearly three hours long. The first time I saw was on television that had commercial breaks so in the end I had spent about 3.5 hours watching this. I enjoy long movies, but like I said, there are so many filler scenes in there that it wasn't necessary to make it this long.
2. Bad Irish accents. This is not too big of an issue, but it was quite annoying. I am not Irish myself, but it still bothered me when some of the American actors tried to speak with an Irish accent when it sounded horrible. The worst one I think was John C. Reilly's performance. His acting was pretty good, but that accent was just plain bad.
3. This is my biggest issue with the film, I liked William Cutting (Butcher Bill) more than Amsterdam! Amsterdam was sometimes annoyingly stupid and Butcher Bill wasn't the best antagonist, the character was brilliant and I really liked Daniel Day-Lewis's performance. However, in Amsterdam's eyes he was this psycho asshole who killed Amsterdams father, 'Priest' Vallon. This is not the case since it is obvious that Bill respected him and he killed him honorably. Then Amsterdam still acts like an idiot and tries to kill him in front of everyone and fails completely. The thing I didn't like about the Butcher was that when Amsterdam attacked him from behind he thought he was a coward for doing so, but later he just throws an axe in Brendan Gleeson's characters back! Before this scene Bill seemed to be living with some honor and by some moral rules, but he just breaks it all of a sudden, doesn't make sense to me.
Anyways, it's overall a good film and definitely worth watching even though it suffers at times.