Amazing film from a master filmmaker...Daniel Day-Lewis is a shoe-in for an Oscar

Rating: 9/10 (13 December 2002)

I just saw this film in an advance screening, and the wait is definately worth it. Martin Scorsese's film about the beginning of a city that was built on blood is his best film in years. But the real star here is Daniel Day-Lewis. He is absolutely mesmerizing as Bill the Butcher. His acting is superb and he steals the film. The film is brutal in it's portrayal of a much harder time when justice wasn't in the hands of the law but in the hands of gangs.
This film is brilliant.