This movie is long (2:40) and was probably longer before cutting. It is your basic “historical drama” – based on the true story of a drug kingpin in the 1970s.

I think the movie was marketed as, and I expected to see, a cop-vs.-gangster movie a la Pacino/DeNiro in Heat. However, the movie digressed into too many side stories (perhaps in the pursuit of historical narrative, or tribute to its still-living main characters), which ended up diluting the basic cops-vs.-robbers story.

I saw this at the new “Sundance Kabuki” (formerly known as AMC Kabuki) theater. The theater has been renovated and is actually quite nice now, although it has lost some of its “old theater” character.