To sum it up, this was the third worst movie I've ever seen, preceded by American Beauty and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, in that order. The film was dark, boring, violent, ridiculous and historically incorrect. The one good point was the acting of Daniel Day Lewis but even he couldn't save this TURKEY!

absolute rubbish wanton use of violence bloody terrible

This so-called "masterpiece" (ha!) is a jumble of bad acting, bad directing, and mindless blood and gore from beginning to end. The story contains not one sympathetic or likeable character. That most of the crud-balls in this dung heap die by the end earns it a single star in my book.

The TURKEY rating is for that lard butt Jeff Vice. That guy doesn't have any talent for rating movies and is completely worthless. If you believe what he says you are a turkey too!!!

Jeff Vice once again demonstrates that he have a subpar taste in films. He gave Fight Club three stars (the film which I loathed for being self-consciously ludicrous and repugnant) - that's stretching his notoriously conservative film criticism a bit too far. There are some films with which I agree with his assessment - such as an American animated masterpiece The Iron Giant and A Beautiful Mind not all that great. Like Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, Martin Scorsese's catastrophic Gangs of New York is a flawed masterpiece that will hold up well for many years to come not because of its marvelous script, direction, costuming, production design, sound and editing but also due to the astonishing tour de force strength of Daniel Day Lewis' as Bill the Butcher as an utterly complex and ruthlessly evil gang leader. It saddens me the twentysomething audience members come to see this film expecting another Titanic because of Leonardo DiCaprio and end up being bored, walking out randomly and making out with dates. That said, Gangs of New York is a moving tribute to Americana - the ending is just as amazing - and it will undoubedly earn Scorsese, Lewis and production crew the Oscars.