Epic Place-Mat

This movie is very large in scale, and that's what Scorsese envisioned as his model of 1800s NYC brimming with corruption, heavy bosses, and massive ethnic gangs.

Leo DiCaprio is very entertaining as the upstart Amsterdam Vallon, the son of a fallen ethnic gang leader seeking to re-claim social authority in a pedestrianism-anarchy New York.

Daniel Day-Lewis is stern and brooding as the street-wise and insidious Bill the Butcher, the leader of a certain ruthless ethnic gang controlling the traffic of New York City with questionable power-ties to the self-serving politics-infiltrated Boss Tweed.

Amsterdam and Bill have to deal with each other and even learn from each other as we get to sit back and enjoy Scorsese's long opus on the raucous drama that made the development of New York something to smoke about.



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