EXCELLENT!!!

Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2004)

This has to be one of the best movies I have ever seen. Daniel Day-Lewis gives an excellent performance as William Cutting. So good was his performance that I believed he would win the Best actor Oscar that year which unfortunately went to Adrian Brody. Martin Scorsese has done a brilliant piece of work on this film and I should rate this as amongst his best works yet. I do believe that the ongoing romance between diCaprio and Diaz did not particularly enhance the viewing spectacle, I see it more as a vice than as a virtue. "The Butcher" was portrayed brilliantly especially at places where he himself was supposed to act to the mob around him. his capricious behaviour combined with deadly accuracy of his aim was remarkably portrayed.