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American Gangster (2007)
Stellar Performances.
What a flick. This is what you get when the big boys come out to play, and it all comes together in the end.
Denzel Washington's performance was superb, one of his finest. The sheer ability to mold and commit to his character shows that he has a firm hold at the upper echelons of the craft. Crowe, on the other hand, chose to be quite understated within his performance, (and it worked for this character!), definitely not the 'Gladiator-type' effort most have come to expect from him. Some might say that Washington's performance somewhat overshadowed that of Crowes, but I'm thinking that was intentional. Ridley Scott's direction was top notch as usual, as he flawlessly portrayed Harlem during the time period. His crews attention to detail speaks for itself.
Very cool movie. I'll watch it again when it hits DVD.
Road to Victory (2007)
Better than most
Well, I can't really say I wanted to see a movie about ED, but the story was pretty good. The female actresses were pretty hot. In fact, movie would have been better if we could have seen some more female skin.
I played football in high school, and i have never seen more tears in my life than in the football locker room, and I think this movie captured that with the main character pretty well. I also thought that the football scenes were pretty much right on. Most football movies have terrible football sequences that are only believable to 12 year olds, but these were pretty solid.
It's kind of tough to watch this if you're a guy because no man wants to think about what it would be like to be impotent. Some of the statistics in the movie about how many men have to deal with this were pretty frightening. But, I think girls would really dig the relationship aspect, especially since the main character's problem potentially involve having kids.