One Of My All Time Favourites!

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2020)

This movie goes for 2 hours and 50 minutes but you can hardly feel the length, Daniel Day Lewis' once again disappears into is role and it's quite frankly my favourite performance of all time. Martin Scorsese's direction and production is probably the best thing about the entire movie, he directs this film so well you couldn't tell the difference between what's real and what's not. The connection between Leo and Diaz is what I think makes the story a bit more interesting. No doubt, Scorsese should've won Best Director and Best Picture, it still pisses me off that he didn't win, but that's just proof how much credibility the Academy has.
Now we are gonna get into spoiler territory, so if you haven't seen this movie, see it now!!! So, this tells the story of The Dead Rabbits vs Bowery Boys, which were two street gangs back in the 19th Century, Bowery Boys were an Anti-Irish and Anti-Catholic gang that basically just killed Irish, European-American and Catholic people, and their biggest target/enemy were the Dead Rabbits which consisted of Irish-American criminals and their leader was a strong and wealthy father of our lead character, Amsterdam. Bill the Butcher Cutting (William Poole) was jealous of Priest Vallon and ends up killing our main character's father.
If I could write a more into detail review of his movie I would, but all I need to say about this movie has already been said, it's one of the best gang movies, the best Day-Lewis performance, one of the best Scorsese films of all time.
Grade: A+