Good script/score with lousy Leonardo DiCaprio

Rating: 8/10 (30 April 2005)

Gangs of New York is a great script combined with great soundtrack. What irks me is the lousy acting skills of Leonardo DiCaprio. Time and time again, he has proved to be a pretty bubblegum face with no talents. Anyone could have replace him as Amsterdam Vallon. Even Jim Carrey sounds like a better choice! His latest role as Howard Hughes in The Aviator was also badly done. The saving grace was being naked in The Aviator and the teenage girls screaming with joy.
The music for the ending credits is perfect. It was 'The Hands that built America'.
Mao points: 7/10