Disappointing!!

Rating: 5/10 (20 January 2003)

With all the hype of this supposed epic I sat down for an entertaining few hours, but was slowly disappointed. A well cast movie with great actors and a personal favourite for a director should have proven a fantastic set of ingredients for a wonderful film but for all the action and large amounts of gore (a Scorsese trademark) it never materialised.
The movie had a great build up but after an hour gone it was if Scorsese had decided there wasn't enough time for a good, well timed ending and so a hurried and muddled middle and end to a movie ensued. What can I say but I was disappointed. Storyline was traded for action and gore but a special mention should be made for Daniel Day-Lewis, four years out of the business but he still hasn't lost it.