Sentences with phrase «great as a gangster»

In support Oka Antara is great as a gangster looking out for Rama, and Arifin Putra is perfectly cast as a spoilt heir to a crime family empire frustrated by always being underestimated by his father.

Not exact matches

not as engaging or profound as many of the early gangster films were, but cagney was great as always and the movie had its bright spot.

We have cops and gangsters, worthy charming adversaries, a cat and mouse game and as always — a great ensemble cast padding up a watertight script.

SING stars Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, an eternally optimistic koala who puts on the world's greatest singing competition to save his crumbling theater; Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon as Rosita, an overworked and underappreciated mother of 25 piglets desperate to unleash her inner diva; Scarlett Johansson as Ash, a punk rock porcupine with a beautiful voice behind her prickly exterior; Taron Egerton as Johnny, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family's felonies; as well as Seth MacFarlane, John C. Reilly, and Grammy Award - nominated Tori Kelly.

Were it not for 1972's The Godfather, it seems likely that 1990's GoodFellas would now be viewed as the greatest gangster film of all - time.

Great pal: The co-stars have worked together several times in the past on films such as Crazy, Stupid, Love and Gangster Squad

Great gangster movie, almost in the same class as The Godfather.

Warren Oates stars as Dillinger and it is great casting; not only does he resemble the real - life gangster but he brings a rugged charm to the role, whether cautioning bystanders and bank tellers during the robberies («This could be one of the big moments in your life,» he says at one point.

Sooner he becomes the leader of the gangsters and known as Little Caesar, and gets closer to the great mobster Pete Montana.

For me, this is right up there with The Godfather and Goodfellas as a great American gangster film.

Josh Brolin, who is enjoying one hell of a resurgence (see American Gangster), is great as the man stuck in a very bad situation.

Loosely based on a true story, as documented in the «American Legacy» article by Tony Scherman, The Great Debaters centers on poet Melvin B. Tolson (Washington, American Gangster), who spent several years as a teacher of speech and English at all - negro Wiley College in the mid-1930s.

Both are drawn to the head gangster of South Boston, played by Jack Nicholson (in a performance that starts restrained and becomes weirder and more «Jack» as the film's sense of paranoid hysteria increases), and both have legit cops as potential father figures: DiCaprio has the ideal good father in Martin Sheen, Damon has amoral (and hilarious) company man Alec Baldwin, in a less frightening variation on his great Glengarry Glen Ross performance.

What I will spoil is the fact that this new picture, which stars De Niro as a gangster - turned - informant and seeks to pay homage to great mob movies of the past, is an utter waste of time.

«Yaya Sakuragi shows how a not - so - innocent kiss, mixed with plenty of determination, can lead to so much more, while Youka Nitta demonstrates her prowess as one of the genre's greatest creators with a sultry tropical gangster love story.

I have seen so many great businessmen, nice people, being treated by the administration as if they were gangsters, that an objective criterion, like the level of investment appears appropriate.