While eating with my good cousins at The Grove—an outdoor fake-town mall in Los Angeles, we looked up at the marquis of the movie theatre across the way and a scowling Johnny Depp beckoned, so we decided to go see—Public Enemies.
Let’s keep this simple:
Mortgage funds for all involved.
Beautifully shot.
Bad sound.
Almost every single man in the movie has pale skin and chestnut hair, so, you figure that out.
Lots of on-the-lam stuff, a few bank robberies, no suspense.
Fine acting, surely.
Cameos by lots of actors you like. You get the sense that they didn’t know they were cameos and were shot a whole lot more and then chopped out of the movie.
The thing slogs on for hours on end.
Have fun.
3 comments:
I was wondering about this movie. Thanks for deciding the coin toss. I'm not THAT into the Deppster.
Sounds like "made for tv"
Thank you.
For some reason, I have zero interest in this one, and that's weird considering the positives - Marion Cotillard being foremost. Can it be that one gets tired of gangsters? I certainly am.
I already saw Ben Johnson as Melvin Purvis; you can't beat him. Also - Warren Oates was Dillinger: brutal, effective, and yet, flawed, weak, not admirable. Remember Cloris Leachman was already the 'Lady in Red'.
I guess my point is that its been done. To death.
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