Lost in translation

Rating: Null/10 (27 January 2003)

Gangs of New York was not a favorite Scorsese because it used as its basis a richly descriptive book and boiled it down to a student chasing mentor story (much more effective in Scorsese's Color of Money). The shame is that the Gangs were all very interesting in the book. Really, the movie is hardly about the Gangs of New York at all. That said, Daniel Day Lewis is absolutely amazing and deserves a nomination. He is relentless.