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mlhall
Chicago, IL

Better than Virtuosity

5 star rating

Every day computer user, Anime Geek, horror fan, gangster movie fan
Pros

    Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin

Cons
    Microphones visible in several shots

NOV
13
2007

American Gangster — 

While this movie is very long and over two and a half hours, it does not seem to drag.  Both Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington turn in fine performances as the protagonists.  Among the supporting cast, Josh Brolin stands out as an exceptionally slimy New York cop on the take.  His performance was so delightfully distasteful that I found myself cheering for both Crowe's righteous cop and Washington's sadistic criminal to give him his just desserts.  However, his comeuppance was a little too formulaic (a la Shawshank Redemption) for me.



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mrswhite072895 wrote on Nov 13, 2007 at 1:29PM

Josh Brolin was excellent, wasn't he? I had to stay until the credits finished in order to figure out who was playing that cop! The end was too tidy, but sometimes the best way to finish a movie is just to tie up all the lose ends.

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