Some of the scenes of America's brutality, in many different forms, to the immigrants who came to her looking for a new life were touching. Aside from that, the movie really didn't keep me that interested. Leonardo DiCaprio's character seemed way too flat and steamed along his path, not out of a great feeling of need, but more out of a feeling to progress the plot. And of course, since this is a Martin Scorsese movie, almost every scene is longer than it needs to be to drive some point home. It's always a bad sign when I can watch a movie at 1.4 times speed, and actually still feel like it's too slowly paced.

All in all, mildly interesting for the historical elements, but since I would guess those are being butchered, it's probably not worth the two hours forty-five minutes runtime.