Gangs of New York Reviews
EDGE Boston
Martin Scorcese delivers an enormous blowout of a film, a biopic of New York in the 1800s... but it's too much bombast and far too loose.
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| Original Score: C+
Top CriticWhether or not a longer version would have given the film more texture and dimension, this one presents a blinkered vision of American history.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The 1860s New York sets in Gangs of New York are amazing. Too bad the dull characters keep blocking our view of them.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Movie Reviews in Croatian
The story drags on and the drama only comes to life when the astonishing Day-Lewis is on screen.
It's as if [Scorsese] preferred to concentrate on the production ... rather than on the dramatic issues and, oh yeah, taking up the rear, the human beings who live them.
Flipside Movie Emporium
...a big, baggy, sprawling carnival of a movie, stretching out before us with little rhyme or reason.
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| Original Score: C+
Sacramento News & Review
Apart from the scenes of brawling and violence, Scorsese's energy flags; he and his writers neglect to populate these muddy mean streets with vivid characters; nor is there a compelling story, and the dialogue is portentous and magniloquent.
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| Original Score: 2/5
eFilmCritic.com
Why did Scorsese spend three decades thirsting to make this movie? It's nowhere clear on the screen.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sydney Morning Herald
n the end, you're left feeling that Scorsese has put on a great show. As to what he means by it, I doubt he knows.
CinemaBlend.com
Gangs of New York is an unapologetic mess, whose only saving grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Big Picture Big Sound
Gangs becomes a standard revenge opus. And a long one at that.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Nick's Flick Picks
One decision Gangs of New York can never quite make is whether its primary disposition is toward punctilious social history or operatic amplifications of reality.
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| Original Score: C
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Scorsese doesn't give us a character worth giving a damn about.
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| Original Score: C
Shadows on the Wall
Scorsese's long-delayed epic finally arrives on-screen... and it was worth the wait.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema em Cena
Martin Scorsese cria um espetáculo visual que não possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo, mas emocionalmente frio.
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| Original Score: 2/5
A lavish folly that suffers from an odd downscale effect.
A misfire of monstrous proportions, the worst large-scale epic since Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
An elaborately worked-over opus that's as tarted-up and artificial as Scorsese's '70s classic Mean Streets was gritty and real.
| Original Score: 2/4
fatally overlong, filled with haphazard history lessons and half-drawn conclusions, never jelling into a cohesive film or possessing the energy to move its great bulk forward.
Gangs, for all its bloodletting, is the aberrant case of a movie that needed more violence to make its moral point.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
