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Public Enemies

 

2009, 134 minutes
Dir. Michael Mann
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Action/Adventure / Gangsters

Topics: Period 1930s.

 

Aroview: Michael Mann transposes the cops-and-robbers psychology of HEAT to depression-era America in this ambitious, if at times inadequate remounting of the John Dillinger gangster legend.

Chronicling an exciting series of shootouts, prison breaks, and bank heists, Mann’s action movie philosophy is steadfast in its insistence on realism over spectacle, although one might argue it’s taken to an unnecessary extreme with the anachronistic use of digital photography. A distracting directorial choice to say the least, somewhat offset by Depp’s smouldering charisma, a few curious short-lived cameos (namely, Billy Crudrup as J. Edgar Hoover), and an admirable sense of the ‘unglamorous’.

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DVD Features

  • audio commentary
  • aspect ratio: 16:9
 

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