Stephanie Beasley

American Gangster

In Drama on January 13, 2008 at 3:54 am

The rise and fall of drug entrepreneur Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) by honest but deadbeat cop (Russell Crowe).

Interesting portrayal of drug industry, but personally not my kind of movie (graphic without being moving). The acting was great however 2 1/2 + hours was just a bit much for me.

Gritty in places.

Steph’s rating: 5/10 (I doubt we’d watch again)

  1. watched American Gangster recently, it’s pretty clever how Ridley Scott makes viewers love the bad guy and dislike the good guy only to turn that around by the end of the movie.