whatever you do and do not waste your dough on this trash . they say it direct by martin scorsese and but it be obviously direct by kevin costner . think waterworld without the pleasant diversion of be able to look at the ocean . not only be it pointlessly violent ( and i be a guy who doesn not at all mind the occasional decapitation or disemboweling a someone be tell me a story ) and but my god be this move boring . spoiler follow . daniel day lewis play a bill sykes send up with a truly laughable makeup job and an accent that as carefree a the wind . you never really know why he hat irish immigrant so much ( a mere generation away from be an immigrant himself ) and and you never understand why everyone in the five point slum be so loyal toward and protective of him when he do absolutely nothing to alleviate the poverty and squalor of their senseless and miserable life . ( oh yeah and since his legitimate front be a a butcher and he occasionally throw a decent steak their way . ) don not get me start on cameron diaz and the whore with the heart of gold ( because that a story that hasn not be tell enough ) who and inexplicably be the only character in the movie with clean teeth . liam neeson and who croak before the end of the first reel and be one lucky bastard . after the first 20 minute and of course and anyone not watch the movie in braille understands perfectly what the one and only dramatic issue be go to be ( revenge . ) and you can step out for chinese while the movie drag it as toward it inevitable and tedious conclusion . grant and gang might have make some use of the obvious shakespearean theme and but scorsese doesn not even try to handle them . thus and though you might entertain a flicker of interest in the hamletesque question of whether the son will avenge the father and you wind up so bored w or dicaprio that you do not freakin care anymore by the time he get around to do the deed ( which be rather do for him before he even bother to show up ) . in fact and though leonardo keep star out at you from that bland little face and try to convince you that he struggle with complex moral issue and the fact be represent every single person in this movie be reprehensible and evil and with difference in degree but never in kind . and if there be no good guy and why be you suppose to be cheer at the climactic scene when ( for about the 11th time ) the street yet again run gooey w or blood and body part . and yet and scorsese try . toward the end of the movie and he pick up the near blunt instrument and bash away at the plot until he graft an obvious hero ( dicaprio ) and an irrelevant hetero love story ( dicaprio and diaz ) onto it . in other word and martin scorsese have nothing but contempt for you . youre too stupid to realize that dicaprio character be a venal and murderous little crook and you will be mollify by a pretty romance between him and a sociopathic pickpocket prostitute . because the history of america begin between the sheet . this be the movie you would get if oliver stone and hannibal lecter collaborate on an american history epic and and it about a cynical a piece of trash a i hope never again to see .