American What? Gangster? Nooo

Rating: 4/10 (3 November 2007)

Directing is key - Spielberg does it without stars and makes good films. Tony Scott and Zel are a good pair. My favorite was crimson tide - it rules, it rocks. There was no such tension in this movie - prob because it's based on a true story, and jerry goldsmith's orchestral scores were missing. So its about a good cop investigating this business man. Plot's not important. But Zel didn't get a lot of dialog to express his character's character (I know it's redundant).
I would've liked to see more of Zel talking and yelling, and getting mad or happy through dialog (not that serious look he has in most of the film) with occasional outbursts of murdering his fellow men. Ha ha. I liked it when he busted a cap.
Russell Crowe - holds his own ground - brilliantly - more of a pleasure to watch - how's he gonna do it, how's he gonna get nail that sucker. Well would be cool if Zel knew he would get caught - at least he would keep a low profile - like he said he would or like he made his bro keep a low profile. Damn, his Puerto Rican wife with that loud fur coat and that glamour with photographs, what was Frank Lucas thinking ? Oh right, it's a guess by tony Scott that the coat was what set off a catalyst of events that led to frank's capture. OK, 30 minutes left for frank to snitch on all the dirty cops. Oh, and now he's out of prison in 1991. The end. What??? Come on man, he's back in the dark with the shot of a gun to shine one second of light on the dark background. Part 2 the return of superfly? Wait, that was the temporary name of American gangster. I wonder what happened to his wife and how did he get all that bling bling ??
My review of this movie is this: I've seen it twice, still, it runs real well, smooth, cool, entertaining to watch the stars. I don't like this movie cause it could be better, had to have gone in a different direction. More writing, more words. I liked Shawshank - how much were they talking, thought the whole movie right? Damn! Gotta watch it as many times I can, can't say the same about gangster. Russell and Zel were pretty decent in virtuosity, Russell was a funny cyber-man.