Gangs Of New-York

Scorsese knew completely what he gonna bestow to the silver screens . He roughly begins , smoothly continues and ends rough again . The play depicts the selfish violent face of city full of racists , patriots , avid politicians , painless leisured people and poors without support , amongst them gangs lurking in the streets fighting for the power making an ocean of blood .

Daniel day-lewis [William Cutting] plays a xenophobic antagonist who covers himself with the flag of America – a butcher – is the victim of a vengeance by the son of priest Vallon , the leader of another gang called Dead Rabbits whom he killed years ago . Leonardo DiCaprio [Amsterdam] , the son whose box of emotion has been dropped on his brain puts all his efforts in order to reach his ultimate goal ; his lair the Chapel .

Martin tries to picture a timeline in which people being slaughtered merciless , politicians with one dimension eyesight of themselves seeing their rivals fall down , destroying properties , killing agents , making alliance with gangs in order to reach their own interests .

Kameron Diaz didn’t fit in her character [ I didn’t like her ] for playing against Leonardo ; but Leonardo himself performs great . Daniel is a master , his shouts , his accent , his laughs , his fake cry , his sense of violence , his anger , his passion , … are engineered inside giving an excellent output . The set is almost perfect – could be better . Cinematography shines , specially on ash-filled scenes . Music tempers the movie . Anyway it’s one of Martin’s masterpieces and I dare you to watch it .

My Rating : 4/5

The Hurt Locker

After watching this movie I thought with myself : " Did this piece of art merit winning Oscars !? " I paused for a moment , I back warded the movie to the beginning , watched it again , then I flash-forwarded to the end , and reviewed the walking of James toward hell and I answered myself : " Hell it did its job "

movie begins with great atmosphere giving you the feeling that you are really in that location and it triggers the feeling of compassion with characters , you feel the rising of their Adrenalins , you feel their sweats , you feel the god-damn hot air , and so on .

the story takes you to its deep and dark resolution of showing what really is life in that messy city , the city of women crying for the loss of their beloveds , children still playing soccer in the street joyful and some others selling porn movies in order to earn their livings , men watching American from their balconies and wondering " What will be the future of Baghdad ? "

You simply just hold your breath in some scenes , leaping to the edge of your seat , crying just for compassion , just for realizing the truth [ I didn't cry ;-) ] ... I don't wanna spoil the story for you cause the plot is available everywhere and I'm not here to repeat those plots again and just bore you , I just want that it be clarified for you that this movie is well directed , although I didn't like the performings very much , Jeremy Renner [Staff Sergeant William James ] wasn't at his peak , he could do better . the cinematography [Barry Ackroyd] is lifelike and that's what gives you the sympathy with the characters . The writer I don't know him/her but he has done a great job