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The worse was anticipated and we humans have surrendered to drug addiction…

I salute the trio for their effort, but still broken acting was all over…

Al Pacino and Marlin Brando did wonders by embodying the Mafiosi figure and portraying family connections as if it was all real and as if they all existed some time back in the 1950’s.

Didn’t these filmmakers get bored with this idea: The assassination of some political figure and the false accusation of an FBI or CIA or whoever insider and the deadly struggle to find the truth….

A movie about drugs, love, agony, & family ties …what a combination! You will think. To start with, this movie is a true story… we have here a biography but with a director’s (Ted Demme) full mindset flexibility for delivering this story to the public.

From a broad outlook, other than being a true story, this movie seems to be a lousy replica of the all times masterpiece “The God Father”. It has the same concept & frame of mind but different people and places, this time it is in Harlem and about an African American whose name is Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington).