Re: American Gangster (2007)
Great movie, smooth, captivating and engrosing. Denzel Washigton has played bad guy roles before, but in this one it was quite different. If you watch it from the first scene where he throws away the cigar and shoots, than with his boss, at the party, all of his actions (the way he stands, looks, looks back and reacts) were amazing. The scene where the guy asks him for 20%, just observe his reaction.
There were few times where he flipped out, once at the party...when his wife becomes target and at the end when he talks about his "normal" life, it was my favorite scene of the movie. It may look like Denzel has done this role before, but you have to see this movie to understand that there is no one who could play this part any better.