Overblown

Rating: Null/10 (10 January 2003)

Too long, too big and gives the impression that non of it actually happened in reality. Scorsese's best New York films are the small ones, the human stories, DeNiro in a cab. This is too big to be true. DiCaprio doesn't convince me as a hard street man and Cameron Diaz looks more like a doll rather than a hard working girl. And what's wrong with Day-Lewis's accent ? makes no sense...
Though visually very impressive, Gangs of NY didn't do it for me at all. I'd rather watch Good Fellas and Raging Bull re-runs...