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"American Gangster" tells his success story. Inheriting a crime empire from his famous boss Bumpy Johnson, he cornered the New York drug trade with admirable capitalist strategies. He personally flew to Southeast Asia to buy his product directly from the suppliers, used an ingenious importing scheme to get it into the United States, and sold it ...
Nov 2, 2007 · American Gangster is a gritty and entertaining throwback to classic gangster films, with its lead performers firing on all cylinders. Read Critics Reviews
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- Crime, Drama, Biography
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Nov 2, 2007 · American Gangster: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin. An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
American Gangster is a perfect gangster film. A rise and fall film, but it is done better than both Empire and Carlito's Way put together. Where Empire fails, American Gangster prevails where historical accuracy is needed as well as a good background story.
American Gangster Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand. Scott evokes the crime cinema of the seventies with his mix of gritty police...
Oct 21, 2007 · ‘American Gangster’: Film Review. A gangster movie focused on character rather than action, it's smooth and smart enough to attract a significant audience beyond the considerable fan base of...
Nov 2, 2007 · Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city's mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars. Richie Roberts is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld.
38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com. Crowe has rarely been better, and the same goes for director Scott, who parallels and then dovetails Lucas and Roberts' stories with sublime, gritty precision, working up to a magnificent "Godfather III"-style crosscutting sequence that electrifies an already explosive tale.
Nov 2, 2007 · Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steve Zaillian and Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in American...
Nov 2, 2007 · “American Gangster” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Explicit and very realistic-looking intravenous drug use and bloody, bloody gun violence. AMERICAN ...
