American Gangster Film Review

I just watched the film. It was good, but not great. I will sum it up for you in a simple math equation.

Scarface + Training Day + The Godfather + The Departed = a movie that tries way to hard = American Gangster

Its simple math. The movie is a good story but like I said, just not great. The entire time I felt like the movie was trying to be something its not. Somehow they should of ignored every movie ever made about the mob, bad cops, drugs and then tried to make this film. If they could of done that, then this film would have been edgy and intense. Instead, no intensity or thrill and almost no drama.

3 out of 5