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Johnny Depp does an incredible job making you think this is almost a biography with John Dillinger as the star. He really sells the character. The supporting cast did very well also. Music was also pretty good. The only person that I didn't like in the movie was Christian Bale. At first, I was put off cause here's ol potty mouth and diva boy attitude. Which I had a hard time separating reality from the movie. So I wasn't enjoying it as much as I should. THEN after I read up on actual men. I was more impressed with the performance that Mr. Bale turned in for Melvin Purvis. The reason that I gave it a good instead of an excellent is that it was not historically accurate. The time line of the deaths of the characters is not accurate. They took some artistic licensing. Although it makes the movie more exciting, there was probably other robberies and such that were true to life that they could have reenacted. Check your history books and see what I mean.Read full review
Interesting spin on John Dillinger starry Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard. Well acted and filmed so worth watching.
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How can you go wrong two leading actors and one great director. The movie starts a bit slow but once it gets going its gripping, violent, and tense. Depp gives Dillinger depth in character, Bale protrays a man obsessed with dare I say ease we know how Bale can be as an actor at times to intense and here he is no different. Great movie.
I have seen a lot of gangster movies and in my opinion this one is better than any of them. This is definatly a instant classic. It is very action packed and relatively clean as far as language goes. There is a lot of blood in this movie, though (high powered rifles blowing peoples stomachs up and stuff like that). I would definatly recommend that you watch this movie if your a fan of gangster movies. If you have kids, you might want to watch it before they do just to make sure that you want to let them watch it. It does have a lot of things that kids shouldn't watch so it might not be a good idea to let them watch it. A little summary... In the action-drama Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Depp) - the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale, and a folk hero to a nation besieged by financial hardship and ready to celebrate a mythic figure. No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone - from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression.Read full review
This is an excellent movie, we really enjoyed it. Good to watch several times. Johnny Depp did an extremely supreme acting job.
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