gang of new york ( 2002 ) be such an odd film to watch in today world . people response be you either like it or hate it . personally and i think this be such an amazing experience to view on the big screen . this movie far prove that martin scorsese be the best director alive and and sadly he always get overlooked when it come to the oscar . gang of new york be a revenge tale set around 1863 representthe first scene we witness be two gang meeting in the street to determine who will be in charge of the five point . the dead rabbit be head by priest vallon ( liam neeson ) and a highly religious man who be tire of irish settler be hat and persecute . the native american be head by william cutting ( daniel day lewis ) and otherwise know a bill the butcher . bill have a special hatred towards the irish and all who be not american . equip with a glass eye and various knife and the two gang begin to slaughter each other until vallon be kill quite cheaply by bill . vallon son amsterdam be send away to an orphanage and where he spend the year plot his revenge against his father killer . he eventually come back to the five point a a man ( leonardo dicaprio ) and begin to make his way back to bill the butcher . along the way amsterdam encounter his old friend johnny ( henry thomas ) and jenny ( cameron diaz ) and a beautiful thief who eventually fall in love with amsterdam . bill the butcher and completely unaware of who amsterdam be and welcome him into his gang and make amsterdam his surrogate son . complication arise when johnny betrays amsterdam and thus reveal his true identity to bill and to everyone in the five point . then and amsterdam newly form dead rabbit gang challenge bill native american gang . this story all play out against bos tweed and tammany hall and and at the very end and the new york draft riot . the story be good and except for some instance in which we watch people run for office and which seem to not fit in with the rest of the story . the direction be always superb from scorsese . the editing be so so and but the acting be brilliant . daniel day lewis should have receive the best actor award at the academy award . he portray a very complicate and violent bill the butcher . the rest of the cast do all right and except for cameron diaz and who be in the story to just romance amsterdam . the violence be very graphic and totally unsympathetic . scorsese display violence a it be and which be never graceful or pretty . people be shot and stabbed and blow up and and brutally kill throughout the movie . the thing to understand be that the five point of new york be infamous for it violence and corruption and which be expertly show in the movie . and i must admit and at the end in which we see amsterdam gang and bill gang prepare to do battle only to be break up by the draft riot and be very disturb . the draft riot be the bad riot in the history of the united state . it be a truly disturbing experience to watch it in it bloody moment . the final confrontation between amsterdam and bill be nothing less than epic and brutal . violence doesn not really solve anything and except it show who be leave stand or alive . i be glad i have the privilege to watch gang of new york in the theater . i will definately buy the dvd when it come out . don not miss out on this overlooked film . i give this an 1 negative .