American Gangster DVD

Advantages: Great Performances
Disadvantages: A LIttle Too Long

...vein again. I enjoyed American Ganster a lot, it kept my attention for its entire duration and there's plenty of action and story without getting too complex. Recommended. Main Cast List Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas Russell Crowe - Det. Richie Roberts Chiwetel Ejiofor - Huey Lucas Josh Brolin - Det. Trupo Directed By : Ridley Scott Running time : 157 min Certificate : 18 ... Read review

Superb film and has 2 absolutely brilliant actors in it. Worth the money if you love gangster films and even if you just love the actors that are in it. well worth it!

Advantages: 2 Great actors, and one superb director
Disadvantages: none!

This has to be one of my all time favourites! What can i say, one of the best acted and directed ever, plus it has a great actor in it! The film starts off about when he is a small time drug dealer in harlem, NY, and then moves onto how he becomes a bigger drug lord in the streets on New York. The plot of the film is superb! It has you gripping onto the edge of your seat throughout the film as you don't know when he is/isn't going to get caught ... Read review

Advantages: Great film & Fantastic acting.
Disadvantages: Drugs & violence

...This film is fanastic got some great actors in it and a pure gangster film from the past based on a true story. Frank works for a big time gangster (Bumpy) who runs the drug scene in America. Bumpy dies and Frank takes over the reigns he gets drugs coming into his country very cheap and selling them off at a profitable price. Frank buys his mum a huge house and sorts all his family out that is until the cops start to get onto him they bust him after his brother drops him in it Frank is a very clever man but does not think twice of hurting those who mess things up!!! Frank ends up getting busted and spends a long time in prison a definately must see film!!!!... Read review

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Advantages: Very artistic
Disadvantages: none

...American Gangster is an amazing film showing maturity from director Ridley Scott (Bladerunner), screen writer Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List) and actors Denzil Washington (Malcolm X) and Russell Crowe (Gladiator), all already respected in their fields. It's based on the true story of real gangster Frank Lucas who in the seventies masterminded the US military to smuggle pure heroin into America on service planes. As the Vietnam War was still in full flow, there were flights going backwards and forwards constantly and with his cousin in the army he's able to smuggle the heroin from South East Asia with ease. The film initially starts off as brutal as the opening credits of Goodfellas, but that's more less where the similarity ends. This is more the kind of gritty drama and scenarios that you would see in an episode of The Wire... Read review

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Advantages: Interesting portrayal of one of Americas most succesful gangsters
Disadvantages: Overlong, and distracting sidestories

..., the most renown gangster of afro American origin and certainly most profitable in American history; American Gangster starts on an impressive level. Sadly however I found its story needlessly elongated and often littered with irrelevant side issues (a bit like one of my reviews I hear you cry!). American Gangster is just too long, for the story and script line that goes along with it. Don't get me wrong I love long movies, especially long gangster movies my favourite gangster movie being the massive Once Upon A Time In America, a movie that like American Gangster charts a story surrounding gangsters over a long period of time. When you hear Russell Crowe speak in interviews, and in the special features that come with the DVD (when it is released March 2008) he seems under the impression that the film was made round him, and the employment... Read review

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