Outstanding casting choise

Rating: 9/10 (3 November 2018)

If you want actors to play out the most outrageous, colorful and groundbreaking performances, you put Leo and Danny in front of the camera and let them do what they do. Both actors go soooo deep in there characters that the dynamic between young Vallon and Butcher alone is worth the ticket.
If you watch a Scorsese film you should be prepared for a nasty ride. He has a way of writing the most skin-crawling scenes without even making it explicitly skin crawling outside the actors performances.
The characters are fulfilling and dynamic, and I like the way Scorsese are working with the sound. Another thing I noticed is how my focus always searching for Vallons and Butchers eyes. We see faces and surroundings in a great mix.
I think it was the hand of fate that set Gangs Of New York on hold for 30 years. Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis are outstanding actors of out time, and I believe that the roles of Vallon and Cutting could not have been this amazing in all its simplicity without them.
Great movie. Outstanding casting choise.