Storyline
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
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Cast
Salvatore Billa, Jim Broadbent, John Sessions, Cameron Diaz, David Hemmings, David Nicholls, Richard Syms, Liam Neeson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Eddie Marsan, Angela Pleasence, Henry Thomas, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Stephen Graham, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, John C. Reilly, Brendan Gleeson, Lucy Davenport, David Bamber, Tim Pigott-Smith, Cara Seymour, Sean McGinley, Michael Byrne, Richard Strange, Gary Lewis, James Ramsey, Daniel Day-Lewis, Barbara Bouchet, Alec McCowen, Brendan Dempsey, Nick Bartlett, Flaminia Fegarotti, Rab Affleck, Sean Gilder, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Peter-Hugo Daly, Peter Berling, Richard Graham, Iain McColl, Alex Howden, Tim Faraday, Terry O'Neill, John McGlynn, Ian Pirie, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Trevor Cooper, Massimo Vanni, Alexia Murray
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Reviews
100
Rolling Stone
Gangs of New York is something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive.
91
Entertainment Weekly
Everything is vast and hugely ambitious in Martin Scorsese's magisterial, scrambled historical epic.
88
If Martin Scorsese's staggeringly ambitious one-of-a-kind finally has too many flaws to be great, it has as much greatness in it as any movie this year.
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Rips up the postcards of American history and reassembles them into a violent, blood-soaked story of our bare-knuckled past.
75
New York Daily News
The movie turns choppy in the final third, but it is a monumental achievement nonetheless.
