Boring and Awful

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 2005)

The film was dark, dirty, violent and, except for the performances of Daniel Day-Lewis and John C. Reilly, everyone else bored me to death. I didn't care about any of the characters in the movie. The film went on interminably showing one extreme brutality after another throughout the film. There was very little of anything else. I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was miscast and looked like a child in a man's clothing in the role of Amsterdam Vallon, a leader of a New York Irish gang in the 1800s, and Cameron Diaz was also miscast. I hated the brutality and the whole appearance of this film and found no redeeming qualities in it whatsoever. Next to American Beauty and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (tied for the worst film ever made) this stands next in line for the crown.