| Gangs of New York | | Cast : | Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz | | Director : | Martin Scorsese | | Studio : | Miramax Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound | | Released Date : | December 20, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | November 03, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 16, 2005 | | Summary | Mostly a Technical Achievement But Worth One Look | Content
 | I have to admit that Martin Scorcese's "Gangs of New York" threw me; on the one hand, it's one of the more brilliantly cinematic American films to come along in years, with more in common with the sense of artistic maturity known to films 40 years ago than the usual scatterbrained claptrap boxed up and shipped stinking to theaters today. One can see strains of the great international directors, too, from David Lean to Akira Kurasawa to Bernardo Bertulucci in Scorcese's vision, though he seems to equally raid the Mad Max sequels, stockpiles of Victorian Era clipart, and everyone's favorite muckraker, Upton Sinclair. On the other hand, I felt like the story of European immigrants and their unending hostility to each other and everyone else has been told so many times in one form or another that a roll of the eyes was in order. And it's still another gangster movie. I finally came down on the film being closer to the superb side. That the main plot ultimately boils down to a simple revenge story--and, too often, I did not care about the plight of its characters, who are more animals than people, even with their hypocritical pretensions of civilization--is surmounted by a tour de force of acting and spectacle, most of it driven by Scorcese's attention to period detail. In short, the director is in top form as a visualist, certainly better than in the much-hyped but dramatically weaker "The Aviator." He's so good here, he manages to get a watchable performance out of Leonardo DiCaprio, but thinking-man's villain Daniel Day-Lewis and batty rumpshaker Cameron Diaz are the showhorses in this lavish production about the sociopathic goings-on in the crime-ridden slums of Old New York. It's not the sort of film I'd need to watch twice, but it certainly held my attention more than I would have expected. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | GREAT FLICK (not for the ignorant shoot -em up movies) | Content
| This is by far one of the greatest movies. This movie is very deep. If you like fight club you'll love this one. Their's action, their is good lines, their is good acting. I love the charater Daniel Day Lewis protrayed{he did a hell of a job, should of won an oscar for his acting here} as he comes out as a real badass. If you like Training Day, Pulp Fiction, how theirs a evil charcatr that is a badass, like Alonso in training Day then you will ov this movie. Not for someone who does'nt like old theme movies. Shows how corrupt everything was [politicl machines] great hisory is applied to this movie.
RENT IT, BUY IT, LOVE IT
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| Rating | | | Date | June 30, 2005 | | Summary | Not Worth One's Admiration, Sympathy or Pity! | Content
| You'll need a strong stomach for this one. No doubt there was a deep seated prejudice against the Irish immigrants in the 19th century, there was crime in New York, anti-Lincoln feeling, and race riots occurred there also. But this movie made one think that there was nothing but hate, poverty and riots in Manhattan. Don't believe it!
It is hard to know what the movie was trying to say. Was it a social statement or a Hamlet-like tale about revenge. Everyone was shown as corrupt including the Mayor and his people, the leaders of the gangs, the police and the armed forces, the outstanding newspaper publisher in the City and the protagonist and his love interest. How did the City ever get to the 20th century?
The movie had little focus, lots of violence, mostly unnecessary violence, and there was no one worth one's admiration, sympathy or pity.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 27, 2005 | | Summary | This film is a classic... | Content
| This film took me by surprise. My girlfriend rented it and we sat down to watch it, i wasnt expecting to much. But from start to finish this film is nothing short of breathtaking. The acting in this movie goes above and beyond the call of duty, the script writing is amazing as well as the music. Daniel Day Lewis who plays "the butcher" is by far in my opinion the best villain of all time. His acting in this movie is BRILLIANT! Even his costume is awesome, he just looks cool. To me this movie is one of my favorites of all time, and if i were you i would go and see this!! |
| Rating | | | Date | May 12, 2005 | | Summary | A Blast from the Past! | Content
| As someone who's great grandfather was an Irish Immigrant, I took some special interest in this movie. It tells you what the history books don't. It remembers what others tried to forget. It is a truly epic film that has a touch of dark dickens-style cinematic feel to it.
The violent rise of gangland power in New York City at a time of massive political corruption and the city's evolution into a cultural melting pot set the stage for this lavish historical epic, which director Martin Scorsese finally brought to the screen almost 30 years after he first began to plan the project. In 1846, as waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points, a number of citizens of British and Dutch heritage who were born in the United States began making an open display of their resentment toward the new arrivals.
William Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), better known as "Bill the Butcher" for his deadly skill with a knife, bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish immigrants; the immigrants in turn form a gang of their own, "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson). After an especially bloody clash between the Natives and the Rabbits leaves Vallon dead, his son goes missing; the boy ends up in a brutal reform school before returning to the Five Points in 1862 as Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio). Now a strapping adult who has learned how to fight, Amsterdam has come to seek vengeance against Bill the Butcher, whose underworld control of the Five Points through violence and intimidation dovetails with the open corruption of New York politician "Boss" Tweed (Jim Broadbent).
Amsterdam gradually penetrates Bill the Butcher's inner circle, and he soon becomes his trusted assistant. Amsterdam also finds himself falling for Jenny Everdeane (Cameron Diaz), a beautiful but street-smart thief who was once involved with Bill. Amsterdam is learning a great deal from Bill, but before he can turn the tables on the man who killed his father, Amsterdam's true identity is exposed, even though he has conceiled it from nearly everyone, including Jenny. |
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