A good adventure, but not deep enough

Rating: Null/10 (9 May 2004)

I gotta say I enjoyed the adventure of the film. The fight scenes are good. I think the movie should have won the Oscar for Best Costume Design and Best Original Song. But the problem is that the characters are all punks. And I suppose they all were at that time but I think most people have humanity, compassion, and mercy in them. Even toward their enemies and certainly toward each other. Yes there was a little between the good guys. But they feel such pride in fighting and if you feel that much pride and that little compassion after war then there is something wrong with you. This is supposed to be a movie about horrific things happening to good people and these people weren't good even though not all of them were bad. In fact the only two characters that were nothing but evil were Boss Tweed and Bill the Butcher. How can you feel sorry for them if they are not good? You could say the same thing about most Arnold Schwarzenegger movies but this movie is supposed to be showing how horrible this really was and it doesn't. But like I said it's a good adventure, but it is a bad drama. So some people get excited by this film. It has three great actors in it, Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jim Broadbent. And many more who are popular. So I wouldn't say don't ever see this movie. I'd watch it if I was just flipping through.