YOUR VIEW What are the greatest gangster movies of all time? Edgar Hoover (played with comic gusto by Billy Crudup), who assigns an eager-to-please FBI agent named Melvin Purvis ( Christian Bale) the task of capturing "Public Enemy No. The charismatic thief soon arouses the ire of J. After this gripping start, Dillinger and his cohorts commit an impressive string of bank robberies in the American Midwest, all played out against beautiful, glossy Art Deco sets. The film opens with a dizzying action sequence, in which Dillinger (Johnny Depp) springs the loyal members of his bank-robbing crew loose from the Indiana State Penn. So why did I feel so let down by movie’s end? Public Enemies is a good film, but not a great one, and in spite of its similarities to Mann’s earlier Heat, it rarely comes close to capturing the tension that coursed through every frame of that 1995 masterpiece.Ī study of Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger and his FBI counterpart, Public Enemies comes on like gangbusters. Johnny Depp propels Public Enemies with the sheer force of his charisma. There is a lot to recommend in director Michael Mann’s latest epic, Public Enemies: meticulous 1930s costumes and production design striking HD images from frequent Mann cinematographer Dante Spinotti and, of course, the arrhythmia-inducing hotness of Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp stars as bank-robbing outlaw John Dillinger in Michael Mann's gangster film Public Enemies.
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