one of the best period peices

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2002)

As a rule, I don't really like period peices, if for no other reasons then I find it hard to get into them, because it seems that nobody can realisticaly portray the past, it becames so incredibly obvious that it was made in the present by people in the present and overall becomes very boring. So, one might ask why i would go into the theater to see this in the first place. The reason being is that I love Martin Scorsese. And he, Leo, Diaz, and Daniel Day-Lewis make this genre, which as I said I usualy i don't like, interesting and exciting. This movie pays great attention to detail, and greatly focuses on the persecution of the Irish, something I think alot of people have forgotten. Overall, great film, higly recommended. 10/10