Frank Lucas – The American Gangster

Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) was the quiet driver, body guard and collector for Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, one of the most famous Harlem gangsters, but when ‘Bumpy’ dies suddenly Lucas takes his life in to his own hands. Lucas looks at the power structure of his area and uses his power to get to the top of it.

Lucas goes to the top of the tree, buying dope from the manufacturer rather than the supplier, he travels to Bangkok using his cousin in the military as a middle man to go to the jungle and buy his ‘product’. Obviously finding a way to get it back to the U.S without getting caught was going to be a bit of a mission. The mission was taken on by buying certain people from the military, M.P’s, pilot’s and some of the air force.

Frank Lucas brought back his product and turned it into Blue Magic, the only 100% pure dope selling it at a cheaper price than hiscompetition and supposedly making over $300’000 profit on each Kilo.

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A modern day vampire movie

Most of us have seen Underworld, Dawn of the Dead and the numerous TV series about Vampires. This was the second “scary” movie of the Haloween time that i’ve seen, Saw 4 being the first. Saw 4 had a different type of scary which wasn’t so much scary but more gross. Throw in some nutters with way to many teeth and a lust for blood and you get to my type of jumpy scary.

The movie is set in a small isolated town called Barrow in Alaska, which for 30 days every winter is thrown into complete darkness. Most of the towns people go elsewhere and some stay. Un-beknown to them, a group of people arrive (the ones with lots of teeth – vampires) and wreak havoc on the towns people who have stayed around. Taking advantage of the 30 days of night to feed upon the people left around town and helped out by the occasional half-turned person it is left to the Sheriff (Josh Hartnett) and his wife Stella (Melissa George) to help save the people who are left. They try everything to stay alive until the daylight arrives after the 30 days of night.

Very jumpy and violent

I wasn’t sure what to expect of the movie to be honest, I had watched the trailer before seeing the movie but it doesn’t give much away at all. Plenty of viewers were jumping and squirming throughout the movie, and it definitely caught me out on a few occasion’s, not helped by Jen who jumps at the drop of a hat.

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