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I watched American Gangster yesterday night. I'm usually not a fan of such movies, I'm a fluff movie fan. Romantic comedies, idiotic humour, girl power movies; that's my cup of tea when it comes to movie watching. But cos there was nothing much at the dvd store, and the movie has gotten pretty good reviews, and I saw Denzel talking about the movie on Oprah, and Anjuli swears by the movie, I decided to give it a go.

It is freaking amazing. I'm not really a fan of Denzel Washington but he is an amazing actor. I can see why he's such an acclaimed actor. He was so convincing in his role as the drug mafia, Frank Lucas, that I was actually petrified of him when I was watching the movie. It was set during the Vietnam War and basically, Denzel plays this hard core drug tycoon, who decides to deal directly with the main producer of heroin in Vietnam, hence cutting out the middle man so he gets full on of the profits. And he uses American military planes to ship the heroin over. We are talking about hundreds of kilos of heroin. So he earns a truckload of money from this heroin business selling it all over America. This is pure heroin we are talking about, not some diluted bull shit. And he brings in his whole family to be in the business as well. And Russell Crowe, whom I thought wasn't that great here, is the cop who's trying to bring Denzel down.

It was a very gritty potrayal of America during the Vietnam War period. A lot of drugs, violence, promiscuity, dismal potrayal of the blacks.. A very depressing period to live in, especially if you are in American then.

Excellent movie. Go and watch it if you haven't. Worth 150 mins of sitting on your bum.