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Jun 27, 2017howeshound rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Stopped watching it once, decided it couldn't be that bad if Day-Lewis is in it, and started again. It isn't that bad, though not that good either. Day-Lewis is worth the effort, a far more nuanced portrayal than you'd expect after watching the first 15 minutes. There's next to no plot, an OK script, acting superb to indifferent, just a series of over-cooked scenes. Yes, New York was a violent and ugly city at that time, but Scorsese glorifies in the violence and seediness in Tarantino-esque fashion and as with Tarantino, I find the sylization of violence distasteful. A long film, it's just about worth hanging in to the end. Political corruption, street violence, pathological hatred of foreigners in mid-19th century America: you've come a long way boys!