Review of The Cotton Club (1984) by Lucas M — 27 Feb 2011

Interesting if you know about, or are interested in, gangster history but as a drama it's a bit uninspired and dull. yeah all the players are here but there's no momentum or compelling story to be told.

it's attempted reach is too far too - it tries to cover the gangster story and explore racial issues that are more or less peripheral to the overall story, which I think was a mistake. the result is you get superficial portraits of both.