The first great black crime epic

Rating: 9/10 (25 February 2008)

I went to see this movie in theaters and I was amazed!!!!! The acting was great, the storyline was intriguing, and the action scenes were bloody and realistic. Most great crime movies are about Italian mobsters, Irish criminals, or gangstas but "American Gangster" was a great crime film that was about a black gangster. On top of that it was based on a true story. The movie's main time zone is from the very late 1960's to the mid/really late early 1970's. The film's about Frank Lucas a black driver for a crime kingpin in Harlem who rises to the top of the Harlem criminal underground. The movie's incredibly well made and very INTENSE!!!!!! Anybody who gets grossed out or frightened by gun fights,beatings, and drug injection scenes definitely shouldn't see this movie, for I am warning you all of those violent sequences happen in this movie and happen to the most graphic extent. But to anyone who's a fan of gangster movies, thrillers,blackxploitation and action films definitely should see it!!!!!