There we go once more

Rating: 7/10 (2 March 2008)

This movie already has a grand reputation for being epic, including a slight capitalism critic. But the plot is rather average and the epic thing about it is maybe the main character, although he doesn't develop much from the different confrontations he gets into.
That's not Daniel Day-Lewis' fault. He can surely make the "Gangs of New York"-trip once more and comes out of it with honor. Day-Lewis finds the depths when they're there and doesn't pretend to make anything more out of the character than there is in the script. Or in life.
The great performance however comes from Kevin O'Connor in a rather small but important part. Anyway this movie wouldn't get the seven points it gets from me, without the last scene, which is quite nerve-breaking, but also a great struggle between bad and bad, there you can't foresee the outcome. If the rest of the movie was like that, it might have been a masterpiece.