Controversial

Rating: 8/10 (27 August 2018)

Subjective tastes are very diverse and opinions of movie fans most often vary throughout the 1-10 scale, but in most cases majority agrees. However, there are movies that divide the audience into completely opposed groups of those who praise and those who bash the movie, with negligible few of those who rate it somewhere in between. When you scroll through the reviews for "Gangs of New York" you can see either 1/10 bashing or 9-10/10 hymns. And all the arguing between those groups is in vain. They'll never agree. In this particular case, I'm with those who praise it. I am not able to prove the worth of this movie to you with facts. The magnificence of this movie is not in analyzing the objective quality of its components, it's in the overall impression it leaves. And I was very impressed. I won't go into the historical accuracy of this movie for two reasons: I do not know the facts and I absolutely do not care. I will not analyze the story-line or dialogues. The cast consists of a bunch of great and well-known actors that rarely fail, and based solely on their performances, especially Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as the overall visual impression, I rate this movie the strong
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