WHOOPSY DAISY

Rating: 4/10 (23 January 2003)

Every review calls this a flawed masterpiece. Well it is flawed, but it's not a masterpiece.
It's a great cast, but not even Day-Lewis gets into top gear. Why does Di Caprio keep attempting poor Irish accents. You kept expecting the Titanic to dock at any moment. You can't really take him as a rival for the butcher, but it's still an engrossing tale.
The secondary civil war plot suffers from the cuts, and you feel it's resumption is very rushed.
An honourable entertaining effort, but we expected so much more.