Aggressive, colourful, very human and very animal-like at the same time, the sort of movie that only Scorsese is able to make.

Rating: 7/10 (29 January 2003)

The best word to describe Gangs of N.Y is epic, but at the same time it's different to other so could epics. The opening scene U see the dead rabbits preparing to go and do battle against the natives, in the opening 15mins U were on this roller coaster that introduced U to the characters on which the movie is built, and here we see the leader of the dead rabbits getting killed by the leader of the natives, and there and then the natives claimed the war was over. The film stops here and then we move back to the Five Points when a mysterious character ( to the Five Points residence) tries to make his presence felt, we follow this character in his struggle to rise into prominence under the wing of The butcher, but then his past comes back to haunt him. Gangs of NY is amazing in the sense that U had the main struggle in the centre on the screen but on the sides U can see every aspect of the society during that age, all the way through the film a feeling that you are actually watching a documentary not a movie. and I don't mean it as a negative thing as U have the story so brilliantly woven into the history. The only negative is the ending. I'll leave it to U to decide.