The Grey Area

Rating: 9/10 (17 June 2019)

Set in the 1960s-1970s, "American Gangster" chronicles the rise of Frank Lucas as drug kingpin in The Big Apple. Reaching the top of his profession, Lucas rakes in the money and the power with seemingly no end in sight as to what he can attain. The catch occurs when a cop named Richie Roberts loses his partner to Lucas' high-grade product and the straight Roberts now goes on a personal quest of vengeance to get Lucas and clean the streets. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe lead this well-paced and quite engrossing odyssey to its final and well-rounded conclusion. One of the standout gangster films, a prime example on why American cinema is the best in the world.