American Gangster

Year: 2007

Grade: C+

Country: USA

Director: Scott

Review

there’s a good film in here somewhere, unfortunately it’s buried beneath too much exposition and surprisingly average direction from scott. i couldn’t help but think that michael mann would have punched up this epic. he would have given a micro view of the logistics of lucas’s drug business while more fully rounding out that characters. he would have filmed the final siege sequence with greater zeal, clarity, and suspense. the ending made the film’s two protagnoists more human and interesting, but didn’t save the film from mediocrity.

Watched in theater