Good movie thanks to the actors and its direction, although plague by factual inaccuracies that very well can be bigotries.

Rating: 6/10 (28 November 2007)

It is sad that in the 21st century USA we use such a powerful art as movie making with inaccurate facts that can lead to racial hatred and bigotry.
As always Denzel Washington, as well as the whole cast, brings an excellent performance to the screen and Ridley Scott's direction is superb. Oscar winning Steven Zaillian writing is the down side of the movie due to its misguided focus on ethnic role-play, unnecessary to the success of the story.
The spectator should be aware that various significant facts - e.g. Frank "Superfly" Lucas' wife was not a Miss Puerto Rico pageant, that her name was not Eva Oquendo but Julie and that she went back to Puerto Rico (she served time)  in the movie are completely wrong.
I wonder when we could reflect in screenplay write how lack of conscience, no qualms in using violence, social pressures, ethnic rejection and social isolation is the foundation to such true stories as the one of Frank Lucas. All prominent Puerto Ricans as well as African- American should stand up and let all of us know that you are the majority and that this story is of a "minority", not in terms of race but of percentages.