Gangs of New York

As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon(Leonardo DiCaprio) returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland! Along the way he meets a Jenny (Cameron Diaz) who herself is aligned with the murderer of his father a Mr. William "Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day Lewis). Most of the men in high points of power and some aligned with Butcher are former members of Amsterdams fathers gang, The Dead Rabbits. Amsterdam plans to get close enough to Butcher as he will not expect his right hand man to be plotting against him.

I really liked this movie a lot more than i thought i would when i first came across it. The acting is done very well especially by Lewis and DiCaprio. he rest odf the characters are placed well amongst the stars as to complement them nicely. The only downfall this movie really had was the length of it becuase it runs damn near 3 hours long. So unless you have the time to invest in this movie it might not be for you. But if you have the time it is a very good movie. I rate it a underated 8 out of 10. Thats only because you might have to watch it in two installments and that ruins it for me sometimes. All in all its worth the time to me so check it out.