Finally got around to seeing Ridley Scott's AMERICAN GANGSTER starring Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington and like most of Scott's films...I liked it. In some respects it went against the more conventional gangster-genre style in that it wasn't centered around action and pointless violence. Instead the film was about the rise & fall of a very smart gang leader who oddly enough never indulged in the drug life that he controlled. It's based on a true story set in the early 1970's. While the film was one of the better films I have seen recently it does not quite compare though with either of David Cronenberg's memorable gangster films: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and EASTERN PROMISES. Both star Viggo Mortensen and demonstrate his incredible acting chops to go from a Irish mafia man to a Russian bodyguard. Just incredible. I'd give AMERICAN GANGSTER 7/10.
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