Great depiction of civil war New York, terrible plot

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2003)

This could have easily been a very effective historical drama, but Scorsese must have been pressured into Hollywooding this film with a really stupid love story. The gang wars, the Tammany Hall graft, and draft riots were so well depicted it would be unfair to fail a film like this, but the love story is so BAD it almost sinks the whole thing. Leo needs to quit "acting" all the time. Cameron Diaz needs to do a nude scene when it is appropriate. Daniel Day-Lewis was fantastic.