Fifties crime thriller that MUST be seen. Exceptional.

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2001)

As crime films go,how this film was beaten by Titanic at the Oscars amounts to a crime in itself. This film is awesome, and Russell Crowe is a revelation. This film explains how an actor relatively unknown in America at the time, got the leading part in such an important and expensive film as Gladiator. This man is the most impressive actor in motion pictures at the moment and it can only be a matter of time before he is rightly awarded by the Academy. The film itself is as good if not better than any of the best crime films ever made. I'll leave it at that and will watch out for director Curtis Hanson again who is new to me.