Exactly what you get when you add Scorsese, DiCaprio, and Day-Lewis

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 2011)

First off I would like to say that it is hard to find a bigger Scorsese and Day-Lewis fan than myself and I am becoming quite a big fan of DiCaprio so I was already supper excited before the DVD was even being put in the DVD Player. What I saw over the three hours that followed was one of those rare times when a movie lives up to all your hopes and dreams.
Day-Lewis as Bill "the Butcher" is easily one of my all time favorite movie characters and no one could have pulled it off like Daniel. DiCaprio, as Amsterdam, really showed off his flourishing talent which was mixed with his earlier youthful style seen in Titanic and The Quick and the Dead and his now darker and more dramatic style which you can see in movies like Shutter Island and Revolutionary Road. Also Cameron Diaz surprised me as I usually find her acting wanting, defiantly not good enough to pull off a role in such a deep movie.
As for the story, I can not even began to explain how amazing and insightful it was into how life was like in the 1840s in New York. Now yes this movie is long but if you are like me, length means nothing and never effects my view of a movie.
All around, just an outstanding movie.