Boring as Hell!!

Rating: 3/10 (4 October 2015)

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I AM a great fan of Martin Scorsese's normally excellent movies but this one falls flat in a spectacular fashion. Problems: 1 The laughable costumes of the gangs. I have no doubt that the gangs at the time did dress kind of outlandishly and I am prepared to concede that research about this was probably quite thorough. BUT, and this is a big BUTT, how can the costumes in this period piece of rubbish almost always look like they've just come from a clothes stand of costumes made for this movie. They all look brand new most of the time despite the filth in which these unfortunate individuals spend their miserable lives. 2 the excruciatingly boring "love story" between the diCaprio and Diaz characters. There was nothing convincing about this at all 3 at 2'46" the movie is at least an hour too long - I was bored s**tless after 45 minutes but watched this tripe to the end only because I believe no-one who hasn't watched a movie from start to finish has a right to grade it, let alone write a review 4 like others, I don't have a problem with violence in movies if the violence is in context and believable. This one is violent for the sake of violence it seems to me in an effort to take focus off the fact that it's a turgidly told, thoroughly predictable and boring story. 5 while Daniel Day Lewis is undoubtedly a fine actor, he is far from convincing as Bill The Butcher Cutting. His American accent must be a bit of an embarrassment to genuine Americans; Hell, I could do a better American accent myself and Scorsese could have had me for peanuts. How surprising is it that this movie was made by a master director and concerns a similar period in American history to Scorsese's thoroughly wonderful "Age of Innocence". The disparity in quality between Age of Innocence and this very poor movie couldn't be more stark. So, forget this piece of rubbish and watch Age of Innocence instead. You'll gain a lot from that one and nothing at all from this. JMV