This film moves seamlessly from slow and mildly interesting to slow and quite disturbing. The running time of this film is at least 45 minutes too long. It starts slowly and never really picks up pace. An average story, averagely acted and certainly not worthy of an Oscar. Having said that of course, Titanic won some and Forrest Gump beat The Shawshank Redemption so anything can happen. Obviously believing that he should have won an Oscar for Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting in Gangs of New York, Daniel Day-Lewis has simply reprised the role. I can't for the life of me understand the hype about this film. I watched it all to see what happened but for the last half an hour, I was just waiting for it to end and when, finally, mercifully, it did, it just left me puzzled.