gang of new york take u back to a time when america be a young country and new york be divide . those who felt they be native american do not want immigrant to enter their great country and spawn hatred between group all over the city where many of them land . in the story we see how much of the town be run by one man and with william cut ( bill the butcher and play marvelously by daniel day lewis ) be the most feared and well respected man of the five point . leonardo dicaprio play amsterdam vallon and who a a boy watched bill the butcher kill his father in one of the point great battle . now a grown man and he return to the point to find bill pretty much run the show . he get on bill good side and eventually become his number one man and all the while still plot for his father revenge . while there be a lot of gratuitous violence and gore and the film do an excellent job portray life a it be in new york . you can be suck in to the time of the movie and and even though the setting be much before our time you do not need a textbook to understand how thing be run and what life be like . i have never be a big dicaprio fan and but his effort here ( along with his performance from catch me if you can ) have make my opinion start to waver a little . he be good a amsterdam and and believable in his action and expression . daniel day lewis be simply phenomenal a bill the butcher and really should have win the best actor oscar . overall and i feel this be the best film of 2002 and really be rob at the academy award . positive .