Now what people are watching is Public Enemies, yeah, this is a very exciting movie loved by more and more people. It was officially release yesterday, and now people are saying good words on it. So I’d like to introduce it to you guys.
Wikipedia described Public Enemies like this:
Public Enemies is a 2009 film directed by Michael Mann, an adaptation of Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34.
The crime drama is set during the Great Depression with the focus on the FBI agent Melvin Purvis’s attempt to stop criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Christian Bale plays FBI agent Purvis, Johnny Depp plays Dillinger, Academy Award-winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose) plays Dillinger’s girlfriend Billie Frechette, and Channing Tatum plays Pretty Boy Floyd. Principal photography began in Columbus, Wisconsin on March 17, 2008 and continued in Chicago, Illinois; Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin; and several other places in Wisconsin until the end of June 2008, including the Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, the actual location of a 1934 gun fight between Dillinger and the FBI. Some parts of the film were shot in Crown Point, Indiana, the town where Dillinger was imprisoned and subsequently escaped from jail.
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Movie Info:
Genres: Drama, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation
Running Time: 2 hr. 23 min.
Release Date: July 1st, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating: R for gangster violence and some language.
Distributors: Universal Pictures
[via: Yahoo! Movies]
The story of this movie is very interesting, let’s take a look.
Plot:
In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the incredible and true story of legendary Depression-era bank robber 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 much of the downtrodden public. No one could stop Dillinger. 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. But while the adventures of Dillinger’s gang (later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham)) thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw’s capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America’s first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing “Clark Gable of the FBI”.
[via: IMDb]
Cast:
James Russo … Walter Dietrich
David Wenham … Harry ‘Pete’ Pierpont
Christian Stolte … Charles Makley
Jason Clarke … John ‘Red’ Hamilton
Johnny Depp … John Dillinger
What others said about this movie? Let’s take a look.
Critic Reviews:
Boasts solid performances by Johnny Depp and the radiant Marion Cotillard, but suffers from excessive style over substance. It often drags and lacks insight, palpable thrills along with dramatic tension.
Michael Mann shows some restraint and comes up big with this one.
The movie tangentially holds your interest, but could have been so much better if it had developed a rooting interest for one side or the other.
[via: Rotten Tomatoes]
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