Bloody Scorsese

Rating: 3/10 (26 April 2006)

What has happened with Scorsese? After Goodfellas it's all gone downhill. He still gets a lot of attention because of the great movies he made in the Seventies and Eighties but it's about time the current movies are judged on their merit.
Let's take Gangs of New York: - Leonardo DiCaprio is a such bad actor and he cannot deal with a big role, he's just too uninteresting. Why choose him?

Daniel Day Lewis plays well but in the end gets carried away. Where was the director?

Cameron Diaz proves that she cannot act dramatic roles, first she has that constant smirk as if life was a party - yeah it was if you consider the area she lives in. Towards the end she just looks so saaaad. Oh but wait a minute there is redemption, life in sunny California.

After the first epic battle one is impressed but after 3 more of them one gets a bit fed up and after another 3 one begins to wonder. OK Scorsese can direct a big scene but do we have to have them non-stop in a 3 hour long picture.
The last big scene was a typical example, lets have a big clash but lets make it even bigger by dragging in a large revolt against the draft. I was even expecting Indians to start attacking New York and a cholera epidemic striking at the same time.
By the by Daniel Day Lewis kills every character immediately, except of course for Leonardo, he stabs him in the stomach, but Leonardo is walking around the next day without the smallest twitch, that's what I call great acting!