Worst film of the year

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2003)

This film is so bad I almost walked out of the theater before the end.
While the historical setting and circumstances are interesting, the cartoon characters that inhabit the script are laughable. Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the Butcher is so ridiculous that it is impossible to take the character seriously. I think that the press is too impressed by Scorsese's resume to give him a bad review on this film. If this material was shown as a documentary, or in a slightly less gory and unrealistic way, then you'd have a fascinating film, not "Gladiator" set in old New York.