Neither Gladiator nor Blade Runner: Ridley Scott’s thriller with an almost perfect score that you can watch on Netflix

That Ridley Scott is one of the best directors in the history of cinema is something that few people can doubt at this point. Just for having given life to two of the greatest science fiction classics, Alien and blade runneralready deserves a prominent place in Hollywood history. However, he has not always had the same luck.

Without going any further, many moviegoers turn to films like Napoleon either Gladiator 2 to argue that his films are no longer what they wereand that the veteran filmmaker has long lost direction with his works. However, there is a film that is almost twenty years old, but continues to arouse the interest of experts. Just take a look at their reviews.

One of Ridley Scott’s forgotten gems

As much as Gladiator (the first, the original), was released in the early 2000s, many people remember it. Proof of this has been the enormous expectations that almost everyone has put in its sequelwith indifference to what each one has later said about it, taking into account the disparate nature of their criticisms. Gladiator it’s all a classic.

But the curious thing about the matter is that Ridley Scott’s filmography demonstrates how capricious the world of cinema can be. Or rather, the memory of it. Barely five years have passed since Gladiator, Scott signed another film that received reviews almost at the same level as those of his gladiator film.or even better sometimes, and that for many is forgotten.

It is about American Gangstera film released in 2007and which showed that the director of blade runner He has nothing to envy when it comes to telling famous stories to other filmmakers like Martin Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola (although each of them has their own style, it would be necessary). The film received great praise, and still does.

American Gaster is based on the real life of Frank Lucas, a real person whose story was originally documented in a New York Magazine article titled The Return of Superfly. And, although the film takes certain creative liberties, it manages to capture the mobster’s career, and the surprising consequences his actions had on the community in the late ’60s.

A success that you can enjoy on Netflix

With a budget of about 100 million dollars, American Gangster spared no expense to faithfully recreate the New York of half a century ago and convey the story of Frank Lucas, a Harlem drug dealer who built an empire. The risk paid off, as the film grossed more than $266 million worldwide after its theatrical run.

The good news is that this film, which has very high scores on many specialized Internet portals, is part of the Netflix catalog, so anyone passionate about quality cinema can now also give it a second chance. Something highly recommended.

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