Review of American Gangster (2007) by Gavin M — 17 Nov 2014

Dominic Cattano: "Success. It?s got enemies. You can be successful and have enemies or you can be unsuccessful and have friends".

The story is about Frank Lucas, the quiet driver to one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price.

They always comes a time in movies were I mostly get sucked in by the character's or story, and American Gangster does both right, because this is a flawless movie with spellbinding acting and brilliant directing.

Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe both were absolutely outstanding in this movie. They both give a remember-able performance that gived their career a step up like never before. They both great actors who got talent all over them every time his one the screen.

The director of this movie "Ridley Scott", which now his new films have been mostly okay or straight up boring and bad which sucks saying that because I know he can directed good movies just look at Gladiator, Blade Runner and Alien. But his directing in this movie was top notch brilliant and skillful with his shots and camera work.

The story is interesting, the performance are top notch and the movie has pretty damn good soundtrack that I couldn't get out of my head.

My only problems with the movie is the movie itself does slow down at parts for me. I'm I the only one thinks that this movie is perfect for Martian Scorsese to directed, as he is the master of film making and Gangster movies, but let's not forget that Ridley Scott did good job of what he had with this movie.