Dav I.D.
11Jan12
I don't know about that, Collateral was so sharply focused as a film, whereas Public Enemies turned up muddled and should have trimmed the fat.
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Jonathan De La Rosa
11Apr12
As a reviewer on DVD Verdict put it, Mann sometimes seems to be fond of doing a sort of thematic slight-of-hand, and this movie is just such an example. On the cover, it's about the life and death of legendary bank robber John Dillinger. In reality, it's about treating Dillinger and Co. and the FBI as groups, and situating them in the birth of the modern surveillance state. Underrated movie, gorgeous to look at.
Arthur Freitas
14Mar12
Com concepção moderna, Mann cria um filme de gângster em uma era clássica, mas de ritmo muito contemporâneo.
Duncan Jones
29Feb12
Digital video affords Mann the freedom to film anything and the liberty not to film everything. Abolishing the assured bombast that has long corrupted the staging of action sequences, the camera flits between body, weapon and face with equally disengaged urgency and intimacy; in an aesthetic world of guns that spit smoke and flame whilst clouds of blood linger in the air, it is no longer sure where it ought to look.
Nafisbelmont
23Jan12
a gangster movie extraordinaire. i love how mann portrayed dillinger , deadly yet still very humane and compassionate. the action is very lively and the romance likewise. but the best part is, the music played a big part in the movie what a great choice of soundtracks. bravo mr mann sir
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Colton Bose
4Oct11
Has its moments, and Depp makes a fine Dillinger, but the cinematography completely ruined any chance of this film having any merit. And I had such high hopes for this film, too.
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Louise_Dietrich
12Nov11
I agree. I thought it was visually ugly. One of the many problems this film had.
Mike A.
28Jul11
"Almost making you feel bad for Dillinger"- I totally felt bad for him! I tend to root for the bad guys when the good guys are as square and uncharismatic as they are here. I liked the flick, but my problem was that the cutting was so peripheral and the cinematography so sleek that every moment had the same neutralizing importance. It took away from the sense of development and momentum. Still, beautiful work.
ruby stevens
12Jul11
not a terrible film but if you're interested in the subject, read bryan burrough's excellent book
ILoveCourtneyHate
15May11
I really loved this movie - it's cinematic in such a sombre, lonely way, it felt to me when watching it (both times, to check it wasn't just an odd day) like being the only person on earth, and watching an old gangster movie - distant through isolation, but totally engaged. I can't explain it, but this film is a modern American masterpiece, posterity will look back very fondly of this, I will at least...
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NenaNadine
1Apr11
An enjoyable biopic. But really the fact that is was a biopic is the only reason I gave it three stars. Otherwise it is 2 stars. It played out to much like Michael Manns other film, Heat. The sound editing was also lacking.
Owun Birkett
20Mar11
An interesting character study during one of the most desperate times in American history. Johnny Depp plays Dillenger with such finesse, that he played the character like it was second nature. Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard make great supporting performances. The action sequences are intense, a typical Michael Mann trademark. Not the best compared with Heat or Collateral, but certainly better than Miami Vice.
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A Mann's Man
18Mar11
The concluding Biograph sequence surely ranks up amongst the best that Mann has ever done. The editing, use of close ups on Depp's face, Goldenthal's cue (a revision of Goldenthal's End Titles, the never-used musical cue that was to play over the death of Neil at the end of Heat) and the blocking are all near perfect. A wonderful addition to the great American crime genre.
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Lights in the Dusk
15Mar11
The gangster film presented as a psychological study on loneliness, futility and the changing world; with the internal thoughts and feelings of characters, their inadequacies and uncertainties, being suggested through sound and image. Mann introduces a new visual grammar to the American cinema; the fly on the wall made epic. The most significant "digital film" since Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou Chou.
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Bill Rosenfield
11Sep10
smooth and artfully done though not emotionally compelling . However the performances are uniformly good.
Roscoe
7Sep10
It takes a special kind of director to make a boring film about John Dillinger. And Michael Mann is exactly that kind of director.
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