Josh and Mark Review

Rating: 10/10 (26 April 2008)

American Gangster is probably the best film i have seen from 2007 apart from possibly Superbad. It involved some great shooting scenes and had a gripping storyline. I feel that films that are based on true events create a great feeling and emotion as you no that the scenes would be similar to those of real people. Although Denzel plays a horrible man bringing heroine in to the US, inside dead soldier's coffins you feel a bit worried when he is finally busted. Although he has been bringing in possibly the deadliest drug on the planet he has been doing so to provide him and his family with a life that they possibly do deserve. Richie Roberts (Russel Crowe) plays a good part in the drama as well, providing the chase on Frank (Denzel). Gangsters are not his only problem in the film either he has to struggle with his family life as he enters court trying to stop his ex wife leaving the state with his son. But does he really deserve him?. If this wasn't enough for the underrated cop he is faced with croockid policemen through out the film, being payed of by big dealers to let all kinds of drugs into the country. As Richie gets closer and closer to busting Frank he realises that it is not only the gangsters causing the trouble in the city. When he finally catches Frank in the big bust at the end of the film, both men work together to try and get Denzels sentence lowered and to catch the police offers braking the law and it turns out there are a few more than were first expected.