Wow!!!.....this movie blows!...who gives a crap about old newyork gangs.....

There were several things to like about this movie (the accents were pretty good, and I'd know) but it was still murder on my ass to sit and watch it! The ending was an absolute mess and detracts from what is already a mediocre movie. If you still want to see it, wait for the video.

People are getting a little harsh down here in these user comments, but - - Gangs of New York simply CANNOT be appreciated. I will not say much, but it is a pretentious mess that nearly levitated me right out of the theater. Note: How long has it been since a film has had both an incredible number of Oscar and Razzie nominations???

Scorcese is OVERRATED!! The most interesting part of this movie is to envision what NYC might have looked like so long ago. The plot had a Shakespearean tone (son's revenge on his father's killer) but Scorcese failed to follow that thread and examine the psychological implications. He also seems to revel in gratuitous violence. Did you really a 'head butt' on your enemy ca 1860? How about a meat cleaver in the back of an elected official? And no legal repercussions for the killer? It all falls apart at the end when Leonardo and Daniel-Day are fighting it out amid the '63 draft riots. What's the point? I understand that the movie script was re-written while the movie was in production. This might explain its incoherence. Save your money and see it at a matinee or your local $1 movie.… Expand

This Movie Blew! It was too long, too boring, no one but Daniel Day Lewis was good in it. 50% of the movie could have been cut and still retained the crappyness that is Gangs of New York.

Wow, what a bad movie. When my wife asked me what I thought I was left with only one word to describe it: Stupid Bad script. Bad acting. Bad special effects. Bad. Mad Max meets PT Barnum.

A failure. Little character insight or nuances. Reliant on violence and shock effect. Overwrought, lous and bombastic; Scorsese's worst film.

Hated it - - but I have to admire Day-Lewis' brillant portrait of The Butcher and the set design. I do, however, have serious qualms with the script (where to start???), all the other actors (people that think Leo and Diaz were appropriate for their roles need a lobotomy - or 12), the overly orchestrated violence (blood squirting into people's eyes - please), and the ending was just too much to handle. I laughed hysterically. And so did a lot of other people. All in all, the fact that this got more nominations than The Hours is a crime. Make that a felony. Peter Travers, you are one sick and pathetic soul rating this the best film of the year. Poor, poor man.… Expand

Plays out like a ballet you want to leave after 10 minutes. It's trying too hard to be something it isn't: important. I agree. Why is this up for Best Picture? Hugely ambitious, yes, but almost a total failure. The other reviewers are right: It's like a Disneyland ride staged as a disaster.

It could have been more authentic. they didn't give too much of the actual history. they make all americans look like an enemy. It was almost evil.

Abysmal travesty pretending to be history - on every major historical issue,the social setting, the local and national political scene, the Civil War, the stereotyps of Bill the Butcher, the representation of Horace Greeley - the most prgressive journalist in America shown as a plutocrat defending the rivh , the misrepresentation of the the irish immigrnats, the nativist movement leading to the formation of the Ameircan Party, the draft law, the portrayal of the Union army, even the geography and climate of New York City are all either outright lies, or gross distortions. Nothing better shows the alienation of American "artists" than this sick propaganda film which outdoes Birth of a Nation and the Nazi epic "Jew Suess" for its ugly propaganda. It is a monument to American self-hatred.… Expand

Absolutely inane script... great direction and an unbelievable job by daniel day-lewis don't make up for the horrible storyline.

Despite being a spectacle for the eyes the film lacks much in terms of plot and characterization -- especially for how long it is.

A miserable, violent debacle of a film- I was in physical pain for most of the movie. It was so unbelievably bloody and messy- from the skewered accents to the blood bursting from Daniel-Day Lewis's chest onto Leo's face (at which point, most in the audience began laughing), this movie has got to be the most overrated piece of crap that has come out in a few years. Just because Scorcese directed, doesn't mean it's a masterpiece. It's a piece, for sure, but it ain't what he intended- whatever the heck that was. Ugh.… Expand

I thought that this movie would be great but it ended up being one of the worst movies of the year. It started out great but I was rooting for Daniel Day Lewis, a great actor, not Leonardo Decaprio, one of the biggest jokes in the industy.

Didn't enjoy this film. Overlong, depressingly formulaic, poorly acted (save of course Mr Day-Lewis and Mr Gleeson) and generally emotionless. The 'Oirish' accents were laughable - esp. Di Caprio's on the ending monologue, which without exception, made every person in the cinema chuckle. Can't remember the U2 song well enough to comment. All in all a bit of a rotter. Nice hats though...… Collapse

I thought Daniel Day Lewis was great, but other than that this film was entirely disappointing. The most laughable part of the movie was the totally unrealistic nature of the sets. They spent an incredible amount of time and energy trying to make this an "authentic" look at old NY, but instead it felt like Disneyland to me. I cannot believe this is up for Best Picture.

After waching this movie i wondered.. where's the point? decent acting, fancy hats, but geeee what a bs... "jon a." hit the nail: ye ole ny really looks like disneyland. i thought, instead of blood they could have put the grinch to fill in the picture. and the end? deux ex machina?? hehe. and as from the hisorical aspect: wtc still there at the end? heroic or something? don't get it, really...… Expand

This is a bad bad movie. I wish I never saw it.

Scenically spectacular, but a confused and tendentious plot. My studies of this period in New York make me feel it does not ring true. Five Points was a fairly small area. The orange characters look like Italians, not New Yorkers.

Booring, long, cliched, not violent enough, a let down for a scorsese fan.

Total disappointment all around. Don't waste nearly 3 hours of your life on this movie it is as bad as it gets... Where have all the good epics gone ?

This epic feels disconnected and overcooked. Day-Lewis's portrayal of the butcher is wildly entertaining but the central relationship of the story between him and DiCaprio is flawed. So much so, it left me questioning the point of this film the entire time I watched it. I do admire Scorsese's ambition and passion for gangs of New York. I just wish I could have shared it.

A pretty bad movie from a pretty good director. the only reason it has a four is because Daniel day lewis' performance is fantastic but the movie lacks any sort of purpose. some better editing could have cut out half this movie and at least then it wouldn't have been such a build up to nothing. "the blood stays on the blade"? lame. and what was the deal with that opening music? absolutely terrible.… Expand

What a stupid movie you can never want to see in your life! If you want to see a better movie,save your quarters and watch spriggan the most sexiest film in the world!!!!

This movie was ok! It was very good about the history. But come on if some killed your pop! I would wait that long come on.

How can the same director make this crap and a masterpiece such as taxi driver?? Unbelievable fight scenes which bored me to death! Dont watch this movie!

crap, crap, leonardo is horrible. the plot is stupid. the acting is bad. the action scenes put me to sleep.

A wretched film that has not decided who or what it is to be, but would not have been very good if it had. In the confusion that was inevitable with this many writers and this big a production, the usually focused Scorsese lost sight nearly completely.

Gangs has the size but not the clarity of a great epic. It also has two of our best living actors (Day Lewis and Brendan Gleeson) whose characters might have driven a far more compelling story than the one centered on the in-over-his-head DiCaprio. While Scorcese moves a camera as well as anyone since Fellini, here's hoping he remembers to bring a script next time.