HI, I'm Steph, 20 from Warrington! I also write on the review site DooYoo under the same name :) Th...
HI, I'm Steph, 20 from Warrington! I also write on the review site DooYoo under the same name :) Thanks to everyone who rates me, especially the E's! I am very grateful for all rates! :o)
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Not my normal kind of film, I wasn't too impressed when my husband put it on, and made me sit down and watch it with him, but seeing as I had just made him watch PS I love you, it was only fair...and I must say although I was aprehensive, I was impressed with this film, and found that I actually liked it.
The film is about drugs basically, and as you would guess from the name, gangsters!
The film follows the life of drug dealer Frank Lewis in Harlem USA, Lewis has found the best of best heroin, pure from Vietnam, as this film is set during the Vietman war, he enrols his cousin who is in the army to bring over 200,000kilos of the "Blue Magic" as he names it, in doses for him to sell all over the US for cheaper than the normal price. This is good for the drug addicts...not good for the competition. And Lewis manages to make alot of enemies. On the other side of the law is Richie Roberts, a police officer...and one of the only straight officers in the force, he won't take bribes, he doesn't do drugs, and he doesn't do favours, and like Lewis this doesn't make him a popular man!
Roberts knows there is this "Blue Magic" on the streets of the US, and he is determined to discover where its coming from, but with 1/3 of the police force on the side of the bad guy, he isn't getting very far and Lewis isn't even on his radar.
Elsewhere, Lewis is roping his family into helping his traffic the drugs and sell it, so he doesn't have to get his hands dirty, and so he can reap all the benefits. A beautiful wife, properties all over the country and a monopoly on the drugs business.
Thats all I'll say on plot line! This is based on a true story, and this all really happened during the 1970s in America, which made the film more enjoyable for me somehow!
If you don't like action films, I don't really think this film is for you, films like Lock Stock and Two smoking barrels, Train Spotting, Layer Cake, City of God, Blow are very much in the same calibre of this film, and so if you liked any of those films, you'll like this!!!
A great host of actors including Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in the two main parts of Lewis and Roberts.
Surprisingly good film!
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