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Johnny Depp is excellent as Dillinger. It is the early 1930's and gangs and the last of the machine gun outlaws are still at work in the Midwest. Lacking the necessary interstate law enforcement capabilities, the Bureau of Investigation (not yet the FBI) is hampered by jurisdictional problems. In Chicago, criminals like Capone, and throughout the country, people like John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby-Face Nelson, The Barker Gang, Alvin Karpis, Machine gun Kelly, and even Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow Gang in the South, made a mockery of law and order all around the country. They robbed banks, trains, and armored cars at will. Using Thompson Sub Machine Guns and Browning Automatic rifles, they indiscriminately killed police and anybody else who got in their way. Federal Agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) has been assigned to take down Dillinger and his gang. Dillinger has been dubbed "Public Enemy #1". This is a time that is just before the bleeding-heart liberals got popular, and in the case of these people, "dead or alive" was still the acceptable means of capture. Dillinger had been smitten by Billy Frechette (Marion Cotillard) and in many ways compromised his own safety by his association with her. Lots of people would say "why can't they catch these guys"? The answer is simple. These guys carry machine guns and show up out of nowhere! You can't have a cop everywhere always. History shows that Dillinger was a little smarter than a lot of his contemporaries. He was resourceful and careful, usually calling his own shots and not working with strangers or "cowboys" who take risks. The movies often tend to portray these people as star-crossed lovers, or just victims of the times, whereas the truth is that they were a bunch of ruthless thieves and murderers. Practically all of them wound up on a slab riddled with bullet holes, hanged, or fried black in the electric chair. Dillinger wound up dead also. He was shot to death outside of the Biograph Theater in Chicago, by Federal Bureau Special Agents Charles Winstead, Clarence Hurt, and Herman Hollis, on July 22, 1934. He had just watched the movie "Manhattan Melodrama".Read full review
My husband and I went and saw Public Enemies with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. For anyone who doesn't know, it's about infamous bank robber, John Dillinger, back in the 30's. While it follows both Dillinger and the agent trying to stop him, Melvin Purvis (Bale), it is mostly told from the "bad guys" point of view. Thus, we get to know Dillinger and begin to root for him. Of course, this being a true story, you know it doesn't end well. However, you can't help hating the people who take him down. It took place during the depression, when regular people cared little about businesses getting ripped off. In fact, the public routed for Dillinger much like the viewers do. J. Edgar Hoover was in charge of the FBI at this point and when Dillinger became the Public Enemy #1, fleeing from state to state, national laws were put into place where none had been before. So, in a way, it changed the way crime was done and how it was punished. I thought the movie had an interesting cast, with all kinds of familiar faces popping out of the woodwork. Johnny did great, of course. This wasn't his typically, off the wall movie, but it was solid. Visit my blog for more reviews: http://rnrreviews.blogspot.comRead full review
1933, John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) is brought to the Indiana State Prison by his partner John "Red" Hamilton (Jason Clarke), under the guise of a prisoner drop. Dillinger and Hamilton overpower several guards and free members of their gang including Charles Makley (Christian Stolte), Homer Van Meter (Stephen Dorff), Walter Dietrich (James Russo), Ed Shouse, Jr. (Michael Vieau), and Harry Pierpont (David Wenham). The jailbreak goes off without a hitch, until Ed Shouse, Jr. beats a guard to death. A shootout ensues as the gang makes its getaway. Dietrich is killed, and a furious Dillinger kicks Shouse out of the car. The rest of the gang retreats to a farm house hideout, where crooked East Chicago, Indiana cop Martin Zarkovich (John Michael Bolger) convinces them to hide out in Chicago, where they can be sheltered by the local Mafia. Later in East Liverpool, Ohio, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) and several other Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and East Liverpool Cops are running down Pretty Boy Floyd. Purvis kills Floyd and is promoted by J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup), who is struggling to expand his Bureau into a national police agency, to lead the hunt for John Dillinger, declaring the first national "War on Crime." In between a series of bank robberies, including a violent one at The First National Bank in East Chicago, Indiana, where Dillinger kills an East Chicago cop, Dillinger meets Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) at a restaurant and proceeds to woo her by buying her a fur coat. Frechette falls for Dillinger even after he tells her who he is, and the two quickly become inseparable. Melvin Purvis leads a failed ambush at a hotel where he believes Dillinger is staying. An agent is shot and killed by the occupant. After the man escapes, Purvis realizes the killer wasn't Dillinger but was Baby Face Nelson and Tommy Carroll. After this incident, Purvis requests that Hoover bring in professional lawmen who know how to catch criminals dead or alive, including Texas "cowboy" Charles Winstead (Stephen Lang). Police finally find Dillinger and arrest him and his gang in Tucson, Arizona after a fire breaks out at the Hotel Congress. Purvis arrives that evening and briefly talks with Dillinger; Dillinger tries to size Purvis up and manages to unnerve him with his talk about the agent Nelson had killed. Dillinger is extradited back to the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana, where he is locked up by Sheriff Lillian Holley (Lili Taylor) pending trial. Dillinger and a few inmates, chief among them is Herbert Youngblood (played by Michael Bentt), carve a fake wooden gun and use it to escape the jail in Sheriff Holley's Police Cruiser. Dillinger is unable to see Frechette, who is under tight surveillance. Dillinger learns that Frank Nitti's (Bill Camp) Chicago Outfit associates are now unwilling to help him; Dillinger's crimes are motivating the U.S. government to begin prosecuting interstate crime, which imperils Nitti's lucrative bookmaking racket. Later, Dillinger meets fellow bank robber Tommy Carroll (Spencer Garrett) in a movie theater; with him is Ed Shouse Jr., who wants to rejoin the gang. Carroll goads Dillinger into a bank robbery job in Sioux Falls, promising a huge score. Even though Baby Face Nelson is involved, whom he doesn't like, Dillinger agrees. A shootout (triggered by Nelson shooting a cop outside the bank) occurs in which Dillinger is shot in the arm, and Carroll is shot and left for dead. TheyRead full review
Michael Mann's John Dillinger movie "Public Enemies" is slow to heat up and never quite comes to a boil. The elements certainly are here with the always charismatic Johnny Depp as the Depression-era bank robber and, in some quarters, idolized Robin Hood. And Marion Cotillard, off her Oscar win, plays his lady friend. But Mann and co-writers Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman never crack the meaning of John Dillinger. The film veers between fact and legend, sticking mostly with facts, but still is unable to bring its protagonist into focus as either an amiable sociopath or a true anti-hero. He winds up being just a guy who robs banks, which probably is all he ever was, so why such a lavish production? John Milius accomplished as much if not more with "Dillinger" in 1973 at the cost of probably two scenes from "Public Enemies." Because there's nothing in the marketplace right now like "Public Enemies," Universal should recoup its costs between the domestic and international boxoffice. But the film lacks the juice promised by the teaming of such extraordinary filmmakers with a cast as large as a Hooverville encampment.Read full review
PLOT: Bio Drama of the live and death of John Dillinger who robbed banks and moved into the most wanted LIST in the 1930s~ Johnny Depp shines~as JOHN DILLINGER who knew how to rob a bank and charm the press, breaking in and out of prisons is his speciality~ when he breaks out one last time~he finds his former charmed live is NO more when the mob is busy with numbers games and robbing banks is out ~ with NO protections and safe houses he relies on his own gang for hiding and protection mean while a new G Man (FBI) man on his trail 'Purvis' played very well by Christian Bale is told by HOOVER (FBI head) to go get Dillinger and so the hot pursuit is on~ Dillinger finds a new lovely~ Marion Cotillard is the NEW lady love Billie~ and she steals the show for the small amount of time she is on~ RATED R for gore and plenty of violence~ excellent direction by Michael Mann~ but THE FINAL CURTAIN~ for Dillinger comes with Purvis blackmails the Lady in Red who sets him up in a movie theatre 'shoot out'~ WORTH WATCHING ONCE~ first half of the movie is confusing the last 45 makes up for it~ outstanding acting by Marion C as she is abused by the FBI ~ I GIVE IT A 6 OUT OF 10~ OUTSTANDING COSTUMES AND DIRECTION ~ IF YOU FOUND THIS REVIEW HELPFUL PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE~Read full review
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