Wow!

Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2008)

Spectacular, absolutely spectacular. There are not many films out there about which I can say this. However this one deserves nothing less. Everything is perfect. I don't think there could have been more suitable actors for the roles. Denzel is brutal and greedy, and at the same time elegant. Out of all the black actors out there, he is the only one who could play such a role flawlessly. Crowe played the good guy, the tough, honest cop who put his job above everything else, who did what he believed what right despite all the corruption around him. Characters like him have been in hundreds of movies before it, nevertheless his character is very distinct and original.
There are very few crime movies out there with an atmosphere so dark, yet so realistic. I was born in the eighties, but this movie gave me a feeling like I was reliving the sixties. It is absolutely brilliant. One movie that I can say goes along with this one is Blow. Blow is the story about how cocaine spread, and American Gangster is the story about heroin. However the movies do have many similarities, the differences are just as copious. To name one, there are many fun, happy moments in blow, and in this movie there are none. Although this is one of the movie's greatest strengths, the serious portrayal of greed, corruption, lust for power and justice.
I strongly advise everyone (who's an adult) to see this movie, either rent it, buy it, steal it, I don't care how, JUST GET IT!