Saw
American Gangster last night with Dad. A damn fine movie.
Denzel Washington was convincing as a ganster, but it was no Training Day.
It's very different than the movie I expected to see. I figured on a cavalcade of gangland violence and explosions. Though it was quite violent at points, the movie was much more philosophic than expected. To put it bluntly, Russell Crowe's character wasn't even aware of Frank Lucas until the last half hour of the movie.
Russell Crowe's North Jersey accent was hilarious. You could hear him slip back into his native tongue so many times during that movie.
I was happy to see
Common in another movie. He really is a talented actor. I'm just waiting to see him in bigger roles. Not like this one where he played someone who was country as a chicken coop and only got a handful of lines.
I also saw my buddy, Chewie (
Chiwetel Ejiofor) was also in that movie, playing Frank Lucas' country-ass brother, Huey. I like it when Chewie's in american roles, but I like it better when he plays his native British tongue. I just saw him last weekend in
Kinky Boots for the first time. I remember Jen and I were supposed to go see that at the
Colonial, but it ran out so fast we never got the chance.
I found an interesting symmetry having
Clarence Williams III play Bumpy Johnson in this movie, having played Bub Hewlett in
Hoodlum; a movie about Bumpy Johnson.
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