Gangs of New York
I really wanted to like this more on a second (possibly third, the desire to give it a second chance felt familiar) viewing. The Departed was amazing and gets better each time I see it, The Aviator has definitely grown on me; but this remains ultimately a real bore to me. Though it’s as technically perfect, almost even mesmerising in places, as Scorsese’s other productions, in the end, the story is just nowhere near as big as the film, at least, that’s how it feels to me. It’s certainly overlong at 3 hours, that’s for certain, but this movie’s problems run deeper than its running time. The period look is nowhere near as believable as that of The Age of Innocence. Leonardo DiCaprio hadn’t yet quite hit his stride, I’d rather watch Daniel Day Lewis in just about anything, and Cameron Diaz is just way out of her depth. By far the most riveting moment in the whole movie is that final montage of the New York skyline to the U2 song, followed by the bold title card and end titles – it kind of leaves you feeling like you’ve seen a much better movie than it felt like for the duration. Quite clever really. Okay I’m honestly stumped for what to say about this movie, it really does little for me – and I don’t think the situation’s ever gonna improve, so I might as well make the effort now 
I would still like to check out the DVD with Scorsese’s commentary, that’s likely to be the only way I’d watch this again and we’ll review after that