Martin Scorsese has lost his touch.

Rating: Null/10 (1 December 2003)

First time i saw Gangs of New York, i was kinda excited, but i also had my doubts (Dicapprio as a tough-guy seems sooo far fetched) I thought i was in for a real edgy film, the kind of stuf that i was used to from Martin Scorsese, like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas. Instead Martin Scorsese suffered the "James Cameron Syndrome" (typical hollywood love story alert) i felt like a i was watching a woman's movie. The costumes, i suppose were authentic, but they seemed to take away from the film, like theyre' too flashy for a story about true grit. Oh yeah and another thing, THIS IS THE LEAST VIOLENT SCORSESE FILM MADE. Nothing like The Last Temptation of Christ, which ruled. However, there are some good points of violence, but for some reason, they don't show much. I feel that Martin Scorsese has finally succumbed(sic) to the hollywood system. The film lacked much energy and was too long and slow. What felt like 6 hours was only 3 hours, and could have been told in 2 hours. still Daniel day lewis gave a rather caricature of snydly whiplash and as for leo, he was the same guy as he was in titanic.
This is Scorsese's fall, 2 out of 10.