Excellent, for OK

Rating: 6/10 (17 November 2007)

Generic though meaty and detailed period crime piece makes good on it's Hollywood slam-dunk with two charismatic leads, outstanding set design, and director Ridley Scott's hip guidance to boot. It is nice to see all the effort that went into production, as emphasis here clearly falls on the atmosphere with a quite impersonal script guiding the procession.
Yes, the film is a tad overlong, crammed with minutia, and awkward in spots, but in the end a lengthy procrastination leading up to the satisfying though under-utilized meeting between Crowe and Washington gets built up to almost epic proportions; like Heat, only a tad cooler, and way more derivative of crime drug cinema of the past.