Public Enemies

[K9]

TRAILER

This looks promising. Great cast, and a director who knows how to handle this kind of story. Although I didn't go nuts for Miami Vice, Heat is still one of my all time favourite films.

[ahoythematey]

DO WANT.

That line in the trailer was Depp telling the guy to put his lunch money or some shit away.  Still could be a Heat homage, which is fine by me.

[stray]

Instead of inspiration from Heat, I'd say the story of Dillinger inspires tons of things the other way around. Will be cool to see Depp in another crime role.. I really dug Donnie Brasco.

[HaemishM]

Michael Mann, Crime Thriller, Johhny Depp as Dillinger. That's a hard combination to fuck up.

[Velorath]

Michael Mann, Crime Thriller, Johhny Depp as Dillinger. That's a hard combination to fuck up.

Yeah, been looking forward to this one for a while for just those reasons.  Seeing the trailer today sealed the deal even more.

[Viin]

This comes out this weekend.

 

[Velorath]

This comes out this weekend.

 

It's actually a Wednesday opening (Tuesday midnights) along with Ice Age.

[Surlyboi]

Saw it last night.

Other than the fact that Depp and Cotillard have zero chemistry, the movie is 

Depp is a likable, believable "gentleman gangster" as Dillinger and Bale sells his role well. You know how it's gonna end, but you still hope it doesn't anyway.

[Brogarn]

The acting was top notch but I thought the movie was rather boring. It could have used about a half an hour of trimming down. Plus, I never gave a shit about any one of the characters, so what were supposed to be dramatic moments instead left me feeling rather bored and uncaring. Hell, I was even bored during the shoot outs.

I suggest waiting for rental on this one so you can fast forward through the multiple long shots of Johnny Depp showing off his ability to act with facial expressions while I'm assuming Michael Mann is fapping behind the camera.

[Engels]

Caught this this weekend again.

Cinematography A+.
Acting B-. Depp is good, but pretty standard. Christian Bale was pretty bland, and had a very poor presense, as if he was only half-heartedly in the role. The french actress, Marion Cotillard was seriously wawaweewah  and did a decent acting job.

Action sequences A-. Good, nothing too spectacular

[stu]

Not good. Not bad. Watchable for the final scene only.

[Surlyboi]

Watchable for Marion Cotillard, who I've had a crush on since, Kid's Game

[Viin]

Saw it this weekend as well. I was a bit underwhelmed - it moves pretty slow. But I thought Depp was good (have I seen a movie with him in it that I actually didn't like? Hmm don't think so), but the bits between the action are a bit long. Could have been brought down from 2hrs 30mins to 2hrs pretty easily.

The cinematography was interesting, but it kept reminding me of how they film Soaps. The gun fights, especially the one at night, were pretty darn cool - the whole movie could have been just those with minimal filler and been an A+.

[shiznitz]

Action sequences A-. Good, nothing too spectacular

If "good, nothing too spectacular" gets an A-, what the hell gets a C? Kids and their curves these days!

[dusematic]

This movie was a bore.  Overly long and  overwrought.  Much more of a romance flick than a gangster movie.  Slow pacing and not in a good way (nothing thought provoking happens). 

[Hoax]

I thought it was very interesting to watch but really it suffered from costing us $11/ticket to see and being 2.5 hours long.  The music was pretty cool though the score they used throughout didn't always work perfectly.  As a period piece it was impressive and stylistically Mann is still a really cool guy.  Sadly Bale is just a sack of boring shit these days and the script itself was all fucking over the place.  There were so many subplots and themes picked up and dropped and characters came and went so that the whole thing kept me off balance as a viewer.

Could have been amazing, the action was really stark and chilling, totally loved the shoot outs but the script needed a ton of work, I mean if you just put together the storyboards for that movie I think it should be obvious that it was all over the damn place.

[stray]

Yeah, I don't think the score worked out for it either. The orchestral parts, I mean. Just reeked of that kind of melodrama Mann indulges in a bit. The blues number however fit.

On the other hand, Mann knows how to film gunfights.. I always like the way guns sound in his movies.

[HaemishM]

This movie was a bore.  Overly long and  overwrought.  Much more of a romance flick than a gangster movie.  Slow pacing and not in a good way (nothing thought provoking happens). 

Amazingly, I actually agree with you on this. I finally saw it this weekend. I was utterly bored with it. I can't understand how a 30's crime movie with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Michael Mann could possibly be so unbearably boring, but it was excruciating. I felt every single second of the running time. I never got involved with any of the characters or actors at all. None of the supporting cast was given any explanation or characterization, both Depp and Bale were flat without any sort of depth to the characters at all. Depp seemed completely bored. The main actress annoyed the ever-living shit out of me from the moment she opened her mouth. I couldn't stand her, and I can't explain why. The choice to shoot it like Collateral failed miserably. What worked with Collateral felt cold and dead to me, especially the night scenes. It did not work for the period piece at all. It wasn't a terrible movie, but it was awfully damn boring. There wasn't enough historical context given to make it a good historical pic or a biopic, and the story they chose to tell really bored me to tears.

[dusematic]

You know you're an asshole when people are surprised they agree with you on anything.   

[HaemishM]

Well, yeah.