- Ridley Scott's gangster flick aims high and mostly measures up.
- Scott's not interested in fireworks but small implosions of the soul and ego.
- Like much of his oeuvre, Scott's scaled-up movie is bigger than life - and lesser for it. But while never digging deeply or darkly enough to match its own grand vision of itself, slick technique drives the story forward with pace and style.
- How much truth we get in the movie version is hard to say...nobody much cares if it's gospel, as long as it's riveting. Here, alas, it is not.
- For all its grit, style and atmosphere, Gangster never sweeps you away. It has neither the lurid bravado of De Palma's 'Scarface' nor the intimate grasp of the criminal lifestyle you find in Scorsese or Coppola.
- Washington's steely grip on his impersonation of Frank Lucas holds the film together.
- Ridley Scott's listless Big Statement is a wheezy, hot air-inflated dud.
- An intelligent, well-made and seductive movie.
- Scott guided Crowe to an Oscar in Gladiator, and once more he brings out the actor's vulnerable side.
- In its title character, the movie has created a murdering, dope-slinging millionaire from the streets that even Denzel Washington has managed to make boring.
- San Francisco Chronicle11/2/2007 by Mick LaSalleAmerican Gangster is an enjoyable double character study, and the movie's length ultimately becomes an advantage.
- As with an earlier star who fed off career criminals, Humphrey Bogart, there is always something a bit smarmy about Washington, even in his heroic mode; the nastier his character grows, the looser his acting becomes.
- New York Magazine/Vulture11/2/2007 by David EdelsteinTheir ambition is out there. But for all the sprawl, American Gangster feels secondhand. It's like Scarface drained of blood, at arm's length from the culture that spawned it.
- This is Washington's movie as much as it is Lucas' story, and he is as entertainingly evil here as in his Oscar-winning performance as a bad cop in Training Day.
- What American Gangster does have -- what makes it such a commanding, exhilarating movie -- is a consummate love and understanding of story.
- It takes nerve to call a film American Gangster -- But once you see this finely made and richly satisfying film, you understand it's the only title possible.
- It's a much better film than nine-tenths of what's out there on any given Friday, and if you're a fan of steak-and-potatoes crime drama, I highly recommend it.
- Every bit as generic as its title, American Gangster is a Frankenstein creature of a film, put together from the parts of other famous gangster flicks yet lacking in both the fury and wild-eyed vision the best of the genre have to offer.
- You can safely watch it without feeling guilty, or indicted.
Desmond 'Dessie' Noonan (8 August 1959 – 19 March 2005) was an English organised crime figure from Manchester, who acted as a political fixer for the Noonan crime family.He and his younger brother, Dominic Noonan, were suspected by police to be responsible for at least 25 unsolved murders during their 20-year reign over Manchester's underworld.
i'm trying to get an image to stay the same size (relative to the window) when zooming in, this means that when zooming in the images will appear to not change size at all (but really they will be reducing in size). I manage to do it with text by using the 'vh' units but this doesn't work with images.
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Just use actual percentages when defining your images width, like so:
This will preserve the image size when zooming in on a window.
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