By Trust Created | Summary | Acting | Film | Edge | Reality |
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TRUST WEIGHTED | Really Great | Great | Really Great | Sordid | Glib |
AVERAGE | Really Great | Really Great | Really Great | Horrid | Glib |
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Really Great
4.5
Denzel and Crowe at the top of their games, combined with a compelling (if familiar), interesting and assured story mak… |
Great
4.0
Russell Crowe, hardly movie star handsome, plays his shaggy dog cop to charismatic perfection, while Denzel Washington … |
Really Great
4.5
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Risqué
2.4
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Glib
1.6
"Inspired by a true story" is Hollywoodspeak for "bring on the dancing girls!" That said, the movie nicely uses the … |
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Really Great
4.5
Although I felt it got off to a slow start, Washington and Crowe lead us through this based-on-true-life film of the he… |
Really Great
4.5
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Great
4.0
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Horrid
4.2
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Glib
1.5
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Perfect
5.0
Frank Lucas (Washington) is living in Manhattan in the 1970’s trying to make a profit selling drugs. However, he does… |
Great
4.0
I have always been a fan of Denzel Washington. He continuously gives a powerful performance and American Gangster is no… |
Perfect
5.0
American Gangster effectively tells us the true story of Frank Lucas. It shows us the corruption all around and how h… |
Horrid
4.4
In a movie about the crime world violence is naturally going to come with it. The film opens up on Frank burning a man … |
Natural
1.0
American Gangster has a real subject matter not just because it is based on a true strory but because it relates to the… |