Really Brilliant...simple as that

Rating: 10/10 (28 March 2003)

This was the first Scorsese film I had watched but it made me go out and buy Raging Bull and Taxi Driver just because i thought it was a truly excellent film.
Daniel Day-Lewis gives the performance of his life as Bill "The Butcher" and in my opinion was a sure-fire first choice for the Best Actor Oscar...in my opinion he was really unlucky to lose out to the also excellent Adrien Brody.
The cinematography is first-class, the editing sharp and the soundtrack crisp and fresh...in short the film is a modern masterpiece that was unfortunately overlooked by the academy.