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Article: History not quite accurately portrayed in 'American Gangster'

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November 3, 2007
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"Serpico" meets "Scarface" in "American Gangster," Ridley Scott's handsomely made but overlong and overly familiar epic of drug dealing and police corruption in 1970s Harlem. Running two hours and 40 minutes, and featuring those twin titans of contemporary Hollywood, Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, this is a curious misfire: a movie that never quite tells the epic story it purports to be telling.

We watch and wait to learn about the intricacies of the most successful African-American-operated drug ring in modern history. Instead, we're treated to a wearisome parade of gangster- and cop-

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