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Public Enemies (2009)
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Reviews Counted:244
Fresh:165
Rotten:79
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Michael Mann's latest is a competent and technically impressive gangster flick with charismatic lead performances, but some may find the film lacks truly compelling drama.
Theatrical Release: Jul 1, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $97M
Synopsis: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum
Director: Michael Mann
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Public Enemies is an enjoyable experience but it feels like it could have been a whole lot more and another gangster classic.
Apr 15, 2010
A lesson in how watching a man in front of the camera hit his mark can make one wish the man behind the camera had such true aim.
Dec 17, 2009
Feels like experimental filmmaking and never seems to transcend that to something more profound or awe-inspiring.
Dec 13, 2009
Depp's performance overcomes every flaw in the film. He ends up playing Dillinger exactly as he should be--suave, mysterious, romantic, but with obvious elements of cruelty and unbridled violence.
Dec 11, 2009
Not to say this is not a well-crafted movie with excellent performances. It is. It is also curiously one-sided and shallow like many movies about famous outlaws tend to be.
Nov 5, 2009
Michael Mann, director of Public Enemies has capped an extremely impressive decade of work with a movie that approaches greatness but just misses.
Aug 30, 2009
An experimental film masked as a studio blockbuster
Aug 25, 2009
The popular reaction to what the defiant anti-hero came to represent in depression-era America made it almost criminal to call him one.
Aug 19, 2009
...a thinking man's gangster movie. While there's plenty of action for those looking for a shoot-'em-up, it's a decidedly cold-blooded affair
Aug 11, 2009
You can put together all the elements that should create gold and yet without that charmed, mysterious sprinkle of cinematic pixie dust, the alchemy fails to work.
Aug 11, 2009
By the time director Michael Mann gets around to making clear his intention of creating a throwback to Hollywood gangster films of the '30s, "Public Enemies" has long since worn out its welcome.
Aug 2, 2009
Michael Mann is our poet laureate of bank robbery.
Aug 1, 2009
Like Dillinger, Mann and his jangly camera live for the moment. If Public Enemies doesn't cut it as history or mythologising, it succeeds staggeringly well as a series of set pieces.
Jul 31, 2009
I'd say this is Mann's best film since The Insiders. Or maybe even The Last of the Mohicans. Now there's glory.
Jul 31, 2009
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