Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Denzel Washington, Yul Vazquez, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ruby Dee, Joe MortonDirected By: Ridley Scott
A slow burning, yet entirely gripping, mobster film, American Gangster pits Denzel Washington's Frank Lucas against Russell Crowe's law enforcer Richie Roberts. Spread over a necessarily prolonged running time, their story is then brutally, expertly, told. And while American Gangster isn't in the league of prime Scorsese and Coppolla classics (such as Goodfellas and ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh BrolinDirected By: Ridley Scott
In his most effective thriller since Enemy of the State, Tony Scott makes time travel seem plausible. It helps that his New Orleans hero, ATF agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington in his third go-round with the director), spends more time in the present than the past. In order to catch a terrorist, FBI Agent Pryzwarra (Val Kilmer) invites Carlin to join forces. They have the technology to ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel, Denzel WashingtonDirected By: Tony Scott
Style trumps substance in Man on Fire, a slick, brooding reunion of Crimson Tide star Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott. The ominous, crime-ridden setting is Mexico City, where a dour, alcoholic warrior with a mysterious Black Ops past (Washington) seeks redemption as the devoted bodyguard of a lovable 9-year-old girl (the precociously gifted Dakota Fanning), then responds ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Marc AnthonyDirected By: Tony Scott
Boaz Yakin's Remember the Titans boasts only one major star (Denzel Washington), but it does have an appealing cast of fresh unknowns and a winning emphasis on substance over self-indulgent style. Set in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971, the fact-based story begins with the integration of black and white students at T C Williams High School. The effort to improve race relations is most ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home VideoStarring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Donald FaisonDirected By: Boaz Yakin
Another John Grisham legal thriller comes to the screen, pairing Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in a film directed by Alan J Pakula, who is known for dark-hued suspense pictures such as Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men, and Presumed Innocent. The Pelican Brief isn't up to the level of those films, but it is a perfectly entertaining movie ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony GoldwynDirected By: Alan J. Pakula
An intelligent thriller with a healthy few twists up its sleeve, The Inside Man marks strong, although hardly career-best, work from all concerned. The plot is simple, and hardly fresh. On one side, you have a sophisticated team who walk into a bank, take everyone hostage and issue demands. On the other, you have a team of cops trying to apprehend those responsible and get the hostages ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures VideoStarring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Wakis Ahluwalia, Ashlie AtkinsonDirected By: Spike Lee
A powerhouse performance by Denzel Washington fuels Training Day, a brutal urban police drama in which a rookie narcotics cop learns the hard way that even good cops can go very, very bad. Washington plays veteran detective Alonzo Harris, a self-proclaimed "wolf among wolves", eager to teach his rookie partner Jake (Ethan Hawke) that normal rules don't apply on the mean streets of Los ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris YulinDirected By: Antoine Fuqua
"The negroes fought gallantly and were headed by as brave a Colonel as ever lived", was one Confederate soldier's eyewitness verdict on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers immediately after 247 of their 600-man regiment had fallen in bloody swathes beneath the withering fire from Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina in 1863. Glory is their story: the mustering of the first black ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi KennedyDirected By: Edward Zwick
Released in late 1999, The Bone Collector was originally promoted as a thriller in the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, suggesting that it would earn a place among those earlier, better films. Nice try, but no cigar. The Bone Collector settles instead for mere competence and the modest rewards of a well-handled formula. With a terrific cast at his ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker, Mike McGloneDirected By: Phillip Noyce
