Gangs of New York [Blu-ray]

Product Description:
Studio: Buena Vista Home VideoRelease Date: 07/01/2008Run time: 167 minutesRating: R

Amazon.com:
Gangs of New York may achieve greatness with the passage of time. Mixed reviews were inevitable for a production this grand (and this troubled behind the scenes), but it's as distinguished as any of director Martin Scorsese's more celebrated New York stories. From its astonishing 1846 prologue to the city's infernal draft riots of 1863, the film aspires to erase the decorum of textbooks and chronicle 19th-century New York as a cauldron of street warfare. The hostility is embodied in a tale of primal vengeance between Irish American son Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his father's ruthless killer and "Nativist" gang leader Bill "the Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis, brutally inspired), so named for his lethal talent with knives. Vallon's vengeance is only marginally compelling; DiCaprio is arguably miscast, and Cameron Diaz (as Vallon's pickpocket lover) is adrift in a film with little use for women. Despite these weaknesses, Scorsese's mastery blossoms in his expert melding of personal and political trajectories; this is American history written in blood, unflinching, authentic, and utterly spectacular. --Jeff Shannon

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Probably the best movie EVER! Tremedous in every way.
The movie is GREAT, the way it was shot, the camera work, the exceptional action, the story-lines, everything! The masterful story developing when it goes through waves to culmination is mesmerizing.
I can't speak about this work otherwise as in superlative terms and it is why it had 10 academy nominations.
The story is incredibly deep, the dialogs are unbelievably smart and trough to life. In every shot, angle, camera movement, music there is so much of cool, artistic interpretation ... Read More
Rating: - Bad and dishonest history
This film is bad history. It misrepresents the situation in the five points in almost every way. It presents a bad history of the draft riots and worst of all it misreprents race relations of the period in ways that simply offensive.

What the director wants to do is make a dreamworld story of the salt-of-the-earth Irish rising against their "nativist" oppressors to bring about a new golden age in the streets of new york.

The problem for the director of course is the fact ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful picutre + Brutal fighting + Good acting = Worth watching.
It's a beautiful picutre. It contains brutal fighting. The acting of main actors are good. It's worth watching.
Rating: - Movie: 3.75/5 Picture Quality: 1/5 Sound Quality: 4/5 Extras: 2.75/5
Version: U.S.A / Region Free
VC-1 BD-50
Running time: 2:46:35
Movie size: 41,75 GB
Disc size: 48,30 GB
Average video bit rate: 22.67 Mbps

LPCM AudioEnglish 6912 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit
Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps5.1 / 48kHz
Dolby Digital Audio French640 kbps5.1 / 48kHz
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps ... Read More
Rating: - An awful transfer of a great movie
The movie is a great, but we're talking about the Blu-Ray version of it. This is the worst Blu-Ray transfer I have yet seen.I already had the original DVD version, and expected a 1080p top quality transfer for the Blu-Ray, which this is not. I went back and watched some of the DVD version on an upscaling player, and it was indistinguishable from the Blu-Ray; both were well below the usual quality of a Blu-Ray.This may sadly indicate a growing trend, where an existing DVD transfer is run through ... Read More