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Leonardo
DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson,
Henry Thomas |
Directed
by: Martin Scorsese
Written by: Steven Zaillian, Steven Zallian, Jay Cocks,
Martin Scorsese, Kenneth Lonergan
Produced by: Alberto Grimaldi, Martin Scorsese
Distributor: Miramax Films |
US:
20/12/02 UK: 10/01/03 |
Set
in New York City, 1840-1863, a young man named Amsterdam
(Leonardo DiCaprio) seeks vengeance against Bill "The
Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), the man who
killed his father. Though he secures the help of pickpocket
Jenny Everdeane, the task at hand may be more dangerous
than Amsterdam ever imagined when he realizes that his
father was murdered as a result of gang warfare between
the powerful Manhattan Irish and Italian gangs. Amid
the crooked cops and corrupt politicians of the Tammany
Hall era, political enforcer Bill Cutting stands out
as only one scoundrel in the crime-plagued Five Points
section of lower Manhattan in the early 1860s. |
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The
big question on Scorsese's long-awaited and much postponed
epic is... Masterpiece or mass disaster? You'd think
Scorsese couldn't miss and that he'd hit this right
out the park BUT... Miramax honcho Weinstein put his
big hands on the project last year and DEMANDED changes.
Or so the rumour mill said. This does not usually bode
well. Ace cast, act writers, ace director. Still gotta
be worth seeing whatever the crits say. |
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Cameron
Diaz gives
Leonardo DiCaprio a leg up in life
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