Scorceses Most ambitious film and also his greatest failure.

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2003)

This film was director Martin Scorcece's dream to make after waiting 25 years to finally start production on the film. Unfortunately, Scorcece was unable to make this film of great promise interesting or of a fine cinematic quality. The whole film is plagued with pretentious editing and a story line that seems something out of a Arnold Schwartzenegger movie rather than an American history book. With the exception of Daniel Day Lewis who shines as Bill the Butcher, the movie is filled with poor acting, especially from Cameron Diaz, and a bias point of view that makes all Anglo-Saxon citizens of America during the time and all Irish settlers saints.
All in all, a movie that could have been much better then that which was expected.