Too much

Rating: Null/10 (3 July 2003)

First 3/5ths of this movie were good, the second seemed to be trying to jam a month long history course into an hour whilst also keeping the, by this time almost forgotten story moving. Scorsese oviously has a massive interest in this period in history and wanted to give a nod to every major occurance of the era, but he forgot that this was meant to be a linear story about characters not a documentary. Mah...
Furthermore, its either a sing of the derth of acting talent coming thru or the abject lazziness of the people casting this that for a street gangster we were stuck with Leonardo DiCaprio. Im sorry he emminates as much menace and street wise toughness as Donald Duck. Good enough actor but the leader of a murderous street gang? On the plus side Bill the Butcher was a fantastic character and the action sceanes were V.Good. 3 star.