movie review : Public Enemies.

Cast: Johnny Depp, Billy Crudup, Christian Bale



Director: Michael Mann




Seduction by machine gun would be the movie's other name. Shot in high-definition digital by a filmmaker who’s helping change the way movies look.



Johnny Depp is brilliant, Christian Bale is wasted, Billy Crudup is terrific in the film.





The story centers on two dramatic antagonists, low-voltage Dillinger(Johnny Depp) the Indiana farm boy and Melvin Purvis (a remote Christian Bale), the F.B.I. agent who doggedly, if often ineptly, led the hunt for America’s most wanted. Johnny Depp is shown as the robin-hood style bank robber. Billy Crudup stars as the young J Edgar Hoover, then the head of the fledgling FBI and Christian Bale plays the agent in charge of bringing Dillinger to justice. This cat and mouse also has a love angle to it between Dillinger and Billie, the beautiful girl played by Marion Cottilard. I must admit, the romance shown between the two f 'em constitute the finest scenes in the film.






Johnny Depp plays Dillinger with a charm and Mann doesn't miss 'em. A striking short scene of a wounded escapee being dragged alongside the speeding car while Dillinger and another man struggle to pull him up. In the most startling shot, Mr. Mann places the camera right next to the fallen man, pointing it up at Dillinger’s dark, ominous figure as he almost blots out that blue sky. Dillinger holds on until the man’s grip wilts, the dead body slipping away in one direction as the car races off in the other. Laying the blame elsewhere, he next tosses another man out of the moving car.






The relationship between Dillinger and a hatcheck girl named Billie Frechette eats up considerable time. Mr. Depp looks good as Dillinger — few contemporary actors can play such a character as persuasively — but the performance sneaks up on you, inching into your system scene by scene. The same holds true of "Public Enemies", which looks and plays like no other American gangster film I can think of. At the end, Dillinger grins wryly at a black-and-white picture with Clark Gable as the kind of gangster who could only have been invented by the movies, a gangster who is as false as the bullets that finally stopped Dillinger were real.






What I dint like in d movie is this .. Johnny Depp manages to escape a flurry of bullets, and plays cat and mouse with the feds by hiding in plain sight.
C'mon man, these kinda crap is shown in Bollywood.





Remark: Public enemies is not-so-great film. It's an enjoyable blow-'em-up film for action fans. Watch it only if you are a Johnny Depp fan.