Good Movie, but.......

Rating: 8/10 (13 November 2007)

I think American Gangster is a really good movie, very entertaining story and great performacnes from Crowe and Washington. But I do have one gripe (I don't know if this was just a weird thing when I saw it, or if it happening in every film reel): the damn boom mic kept on bopping in and out of a lot of scenes. I lost count exactly how many, but it was extremely distracting. I don't understand why a such a big-time Hollywood film could miss something so obvsious like this, it doesn't really make any sense. At least for me, the film was kind of spoiled for me because of a stupid technical problem that they should have seen when they first shot it. Sometimes I could just see a little bit of the mic, but in a couple of scenes the mic might as well been hitting the actors in their faces. It's pretty ridiculous how such a blatant error with a respected director and actors behind it made it to the big screen.