My favourite genre lives on

Rating: 10/10 (3 August 2009)

I like crime epics. I love crime epics. Something about them I cannot resist watching. Maybe because they are 2 and a half hours of getting money, power and respect.
My favourite films are The Godfather, Scarface, Heat, Pulp Fiction, The Departed, Goodfellas...
These films though the same genre, they vary in some way. They are about Italian American organized crime, Latin American drug cartels, Irish American organized crime, heists, hit men and so on...
American Gangster follows the format, this time it chronicles an African American, Harlem based crime lord's rise to power and a New York City cop's quest to bring him down and also corruption in the NYPD.
I liked it. It's one of those films you can call your favourite. You can walk out of the theatre enjoying and still thinking about it.