Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star in this brutal Ridley Scott look at the drug ‘business’ under Frank Lucas in NYC in the early 1970s and the honest cops led by Detective Richie Roberts who brought him and ¾ of the city’s drug cops down. This is a vicious, well written and well acted bit of work with a brilliant character bit by Ruby Dee as Lucas’s mother. Very well played and reminiscent of the times. Both stars are excellent, with Washington again playing the more sophisticated criminal to Crowe’s ‘goofball’ hero. See this film