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Public Enemies |  | Director: Michael Mann
Actors: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff
Studio: NBC Universal
Category: Movie
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Rating:  222 reviews
Sales Rank: 8145
Genre: Action
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 141 Minutes
ASIN: B002T4HWLK
Theatrical Release Date: July 1, 2009
Release Date: January 6, 2010
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| Synopsis:
From award-winning director Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral) comes the film inspired by one of the country's most captivating and infamous outlaws -- John Dillinger. Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean series) stars as the charismatic and elusive bank robber marked by the FBI as America's first "Public Enemy Number One." Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) plays Billie Frechette, the only woman capable of capturing his heart. Hunted relentlessly by top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale, The Dark Knight), Dillinger engages in an escalating game of outrunning and outgunning the FBI, culminating in an explosive legendary showdown. "It's a landmark crime saga" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 222
 Hang Fire September 2, 2010
John D. Aldridge (Waimanalo, Hawaii)
Unenvolving, unemotional, no drama. Where gangsters ever so boring? Example: at the beginning of the film guys escape from prison. FREEDOM! But are they estatic, laughing, horsing around? Nope, just blank statues. I have more emotion leaving work on Friday afternoon. There should be the extreme highs of pulling off a robbery along with the extreme lows of constantly being hunted, the constant nagging thought of being ambushed by the law at any moment, all mixed with a overiding desperation of a life shoved into smaller and smaller corners. If the characters aren't feeling it, why should I?
A Wilted Tommy Gun August 30, 2010
Jeff Farrow
It's fortunate that I no longer expect much from a Johnny Depp film because PUBLIC ENEMIES is without a doubt the most boring gangster movie I've ever witnessed. Everything was like BLAHSVILLE. Superficial characterizations, bad lighting, shaky camera when there shouldn't be any, Holyweird music emphasizing every stupid little, inconsequential thing (I thought we had progressed beyond that), etc. I gave it the 2 stars for the costumes (like 30's gangsters on the road would be wearing $400 suits--I didn't say the costumes were appropriate!) and the tremendous amount of $$$ that went into making a movie so damn dull I finally turned it off.
Where have you gone, James Cagney? The early actors were good because most of them knew what it was like to be REALLY down & out. They had to fight for everything they had, including good scripts.
I'm really tired of watching spoiled brats playing tough guys.
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Ordered this for a birthday present for someone and got it in a very timely fashion-once again I'm very pleased with Amazon.
 Long on direction, short on script August 8, 2010
Richard B. Schwartz (Columbia, Missouri USA)
This is a Michael Mann film, so you can be assured that the direction is more than competent. The period details are excellent; the film is stylish, with excellent art direction and costuming. The machine guns alone are worth the price of admission.
The problem is that both Dillinger and Purvis are men of action, not words. Their speech is laconic and, in some cases little more than a series of grunts. I could have used subtitles for many of the scenes. The plot is straightforward. Dillinger robs banks; Purvis tries to catch him; Frank Nitti looks on; Dillinger robs more banks; everybody shoots machine guns; Purvis tries to catch him . . . The film does not have any noticeable themes and it does not engage us with any significant issues. The characters are largely two-dimensional; the love scenes involving Depp and Cotillard are predictable and unexceptional. The principal actors are not given the opportunity to show their chops and Stephen Lang is largely wasted. Crudup plays the wooden Hoover in a wooden way. Ribisi is a notable exception. His portrayal of Alvin Karpis is one of the best elements in the film. Watch for Diana Krall playing a torch singer.
It's stylish; it's watchable; unfortunately, it's not as memorable as one might wish, considering the constituent elements which don't add up to the sum of their parts.
Capturing the past... August 6, 2010
P. B Rubalcaba (Redlands, CA USA)
An excellent adaptation of an era when crime and corruption was rampant. With Johnny Depp as John Dillinger (superb), how can you miss by adding to the mix infamous crooks such as Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd? In addition to the cat and mouse chase with the FBI, Depp's love interest Billie Frechette (played by Marion Cotillard) is the thread in this flick that reminded me very much of the legendary television series "The Untouchables" (starring Robert Stack). Christian Bale is excellent as FBI agent Melvin Purvis. This one gets four stars primarily due to Depp's first class performance. What a talent.
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