ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Tweetienator Gangs of New York gets a lot of bad and harsh critics but I like this one a lot. It is for certain no movie with super deep story and it may not be historical accurate (I can't judge that because lack of knowledge) but it is imo an epic movie with a fine cast (Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, John C. Reily, DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and some more) and on top a perfect cinematography and big production.Again Martin Scorsese got me enchanted with this one (like with some of his later works: Shutter Island, The Departed, Hugo). Gangs of New York is maybe not one of his top works but beats easy 99% of all movies released in the categories drama and crime.Love, hate, revenge, crime, the fight for survival in a dark world - a movie the word epic is forged for.

amyliancc Atr first it was confusing to follow along but twenty minutes in I managed to sort of understand the storyline.It was interesting and I soon found out why the movie is rated R. I never heard of anything about the Five Points nor did I realize how violent people reacted to draft.

gracehuethercc ¨Gangs of New York¨ shows a time in U.S. history where the divide within NYC mirrored the divide in the country. The plot was good, but was hard to follow. The high quantity of characters made it them hard to follow. There was also little lead up to some events as the viewer was put into situations with little introduction to the certain situations. Certain scenes were unnecessary the the plot and did not help move the plot forward in any way, Some scenes were also unrealistic and the visual effects became better throughout the movie.Though some points in the plot were unneeded the actors did a fantastic job of moving the plot forward and keeping the very long and complex movie interesting.

palofsophie Writing this review about 15 years post release, but this is first time I have seen the film. Penalize one star for its length. Performance of Daniel Day-Lewis is wonderful. Some great performances from supporting/character actors as well. There have been liberties taken with chronology of some events depicted in the film. It is interesting film to watch in 2017 because the discontent & divisions among races, religions, immigrants and natives have parallels today.The music theme by U-2-uninspiring.The set was very well done.Gangs of New York is worth spending the screen time.