Good show

Rating: 9/10 (7 November 2006)

What a show!
People exaggerate,blood?i saw hardly no blood,the way people talk you would think blood was pouring down the walls.
The good things in the film are really big goods and the bad things are only small bads. The bads are the priest dies too soon,he maybe should have lasted half an hour,**spoiler**the biggest bad has to be the ending,the film seemed to be really building up to something,there was going to be this great big fight,there was going to be a final outcome,this was where to whole film was heading...and what happens?the ending gets interrupted by something comepletly out of the blue whose only relation to the rest of the film was that it occurred in the same time period,There was a big build up and an end that just seemed to be pasted on,still it was OK and it added to the set piece.
The goods are far to many to mention,bill the butcher was brilliant,charming and over the top but you knew you couldn't like him,Amsterdam was the guy who carried the story but DiCaprio was a concession for the ladies,he ain't no James Cagney but i guess he was better than mickey Rooney,Cameron diaz?hot chick,no complaints there.
The film was really filled out well,5 points is a world full of colour and thankfully seemed to have dirt under its nails,there was none of this bland insipid and unreal sentimentalism that we seemed to get subjected to in the 90s.
Well i liked it,it wasn't too long,i could easily have watched another 2 hours and all i can say about people who may have disliked this film is that they must be the intelligent box ticking variety who had decided to dislike the film before they ever sat down to watch it.
Top show,more of the same please.