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Capone vs. Dillinger--A gangsterrific review of PUBLIC ENEMIES!!!
Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
Although the trailers for Michael Mann's latest slice of magnificence emphasize the more action-oriented scenes from his film about the latter days of bank robber and cultural icon John Dillinger, in truth the strength of PUBLIC ENEMIES is not entirely in those moments. There are certainly a handful of bank robberies and moments where law enforcement corner Dillinger and his gang that feature some ferocious gunplay, but it's what happens between the scenes of bullets flying that impressed me the most and helps this film become of the greatest films about the birth of modern day crime and crime fighting that I've ever seen.
PUBLIC ENEMIES also serves as a much-needed reminder that Johnny Depp gained his reputation as one of the greatest actors living today by actually acting and not simply creating real-life cartoon characters with pale skin, funny makeup and wigs. With Mann's guidance, Depp breathes life and soul into a man who has served a lengthy prison sentence and learned much while behind bars about military-style bank heists and what's important to him. Depp doesn't play Dillinger as overly tough or as some ridiculously suave ladies man. His flaws and qualities aren't nearly as easy to spot immediately, but Depp does a fantastic job of parceling out personality details about John Dillinger in a way that we grow eager to discover more as the film goes on.
Before seeing PUBLIC ENEMIES, I felt certain that the love story aspect of Dillinger's story would interfere with the story I really cared about. Quite the contrary, Dillinger's whirlwind relationship with Billie Frechette (Oscar-winner for LA VIE EN ROSE Marion Cotillard) was the fuel that propelled his engine. And while Dillinger didn't have a great love for planning too far into his future, it's clear that part of Billie's impact on his life was getting him to consider getting out of the bank-robbing business for good after one big score with the help of cohort Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi). Cotillard's beauty comes on like a second sun--she's such a natural vision, but beyond the ever-present smile, she gives us a Billie that loves so deeply that she pays an awful price for remaining faithful and loyal to her Johnny. In the end Cotillard might be the finest thing about this film.
But all this talk of love doesn't sound like much of an action movie, does it? Mann’s fluid HD cameras glide through the heists and over the shoulders of the robbers so effortlessly that you feel like one of the gang. Sometimes Mann puts the cameras so close to people's faces, you can almost smell the sweat when a character senses that something is about to go wrong or at least not totally right. Watching the Dillinger gang pull off a crime is like watching a great movie about a Special Forces unit begin a covert mission--they move in for the quick strike, every man with his assignment, and move out before the cops can arrive and assess the situation. There's a bit of gunfire, but only enough to cause the right amount of chaos to escape behind. If a skirmish actually does break out with the law, Mann changes gears and shoots the scene like a war movie, hiding behind any protective cover while bullets explode around the actors and the camera. The camera peeks out from behind walls and cars to find out who's shooting, then retreats as soon as fire is returned. The gunplay is a far cry from the sleek, almost-choreographed battles in Mann's HEAT. Don't believe for a second this is a Depression-era version of that awesome movie. PUBLIC ENEMIES is a product of the times it is portraying, and Mann's vision of Chicago and the surrounding areas that Dillinger called home are not particularly glamorous (or even recognizable much of the time), but they do feel damned accurate.
On the other side of the law is J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup, complete with a radio- and Movietone News-ready voice) and his newly formed FBI, which was allowed to do something no law-enforcement organization was able to do—chase criminals who crossed state lines as well as compile and analyze evidence in ways that had never been done before. It was Hoover that both created the moniker of "Public Enemy Number One" and assigned Dillinger the title. I was truly intrigued by the birth of procedural investigative methods, and the man who used these new techniques most effectively was Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), who made his career by capturing or killing the most notorious bandits in the land. As the film opens, we see Purvis personally kill Pretty Boy Floyd (an almost unrecognizable cameo by Channing Tatum). In many ways, the shift Purvis makes is as interesting as the character study treatment given to Dillinger. In order to capture Dillinger, Purvis had to call in a much rougher and more experienced set of agents from Texas (some Hoover was not in favor of) and employ methods of harassment and torture to gather evidence. It's clear that Purvis was a man who knew right from wrong, and Bale does an admirable job showing this slow chipping away at his character's conscience and beliefs. In many ways, he reminded me of Kevin Costner’s Elliot Ness in THE UNTOUCHABLES who “became what he beheld” as he learned how to fight crime “the Chicago way.”
One of PUBLIC ENEMIES' greatest assets is the presence of Stephen Lang, who plays one of Purvis' lead investigators, Charles Winstead, a cool-as-ice enforcer who reminds Purvis not only what the job at hand is but how best and most effectively to get it done. Lang has been one of the great character actors for decades, a man who dabbled in lead roles in his career in the stage, TV, and movies, but for whatever reason is called upon to punctuate a production rather than lead it. He previously worked with Mann in MANHUNTER (he was the tabloid reporter set on fire by the Tooth Fairy), and has done devastating work in such films as LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, TOMBSTONE, Mann's TV show "Crime Story," and he'll be featured in James Cameron's AVATAR in December. Lang has a scene at the end of the film with Cotillard that will take your breath away with its simplicity and power. And the scene works because of Lang's steely delivery, tipped with just a hint of compassion. Lang is one of the best things in this movie, and I hope to see him a great deal more as a result of this staggering performance.
Mann's script (credited to him, along with Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman, from the book by Bryan Burrough) finds a variety of ways to bring tension and suspense to a film whose ending we already know. The sequence surrounding the events at the Biograph Theatre is shot as only a master could shoot it, but Mann adds a little something to Dillinger's journey. While it is certainly exciting to watch the G-Men plot the capturing of the nation's top criminal, it's also rather touching to see Dillinger wander through his final hours of life having no clue what lies ahead after a showing of Clark Gable in MANHATTAN MELODRAMA, a film based partly on his persona. When gangster Clark Gable tells William Powell that he'd rather be sentenced to death than rot in jail for life, we cut to a shot of Dillinger with a hint of a smile on his face. When he stares at the vision of loveliness that is Myrna Loy, we find out just a little bit more about why he found Billie so appealing. That is the greatest thing about PUBLIC ENEMIES: it's ability to teach us about Dillinger and Purvis and Billie and many other characters without feeling the need to spell out every personality trait or emotion. We watch their behaviors and their reactions, and we are allowed to figure these people out on our own.
And then there are the bank robberies and jailbreaks, staged so flawlessly, and punctuated with explosive gunplay and unflinching violence. Mann controls the action and drama in PUBLIC ENEMIES like a master conductor in front of the largest, loudest orchestra ever assembled. With films like THIEF, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, THE INSIDER, COLLATERAL, and to a lesser degree, MIAMI VICE, you get a sense that Mann is one of the few directors who cares as much about breathing life into his characters--no matter how much screen time they get--and making even the mundane seem important, as he does about the films money shots. It makes me a little sad that whatever this mature and masterful work makes at the box office, it probably won’t be a fraction of what the new TRANSFORMERS movie had so far (I hope I'm wrong), but this is the world we live in, and I get that. I just hope that when the dust settles, people are still watching and contemplating films like PUBLIC ENEMIES years from now. Anything is possible. A guy can dream, can't he?
-- Capone
capone@aintitcoolmail.com

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Reader Talkback
Mann is the maestro of Crime
Opera by YackBacker | Jul 1st, 2009 02:26:36 PM | i agree by The InSneider | Jul 1st, 2009 02:28:42 PM | Don't care what the adds look
like or say by LargoJr | Jul 1st, 2009 02:30:03 PM | I really want to like this... by em_tee_em | Jul 1st, 2009 02:35:14 PM | KARL MALDEN IS DEAD. by AzulTool | Jul 1st, 2009 02:38:58 PM | Mann is the best, Miami Vice
as solid too by Stormwatcher | Jul 1st, 2009 02:39:39 PM | HEAT by Crow3711 | Jul 1st, 2009 02:41:27 PM | Opening scene of Manhunter has
haunted me for years by Stormwatcher | Jul 1st, 2009 02:41:42 PM | I mean 'shown', Fuck it! That
last post is lousy with bad
gramm by AzulTool | Jul 1st, 2009 02:42:06 PM | em_tee_em by AsimovLives | Jul 1st, 2009 02:42:59 PM | Bale by louisse | Jul 1st, 2009 02:47:28 PM | Score! by spiceybiscuit | Jul 1st, 2009 02:48:42 PM | I don't want to read it for
fear of spoilerage. by DanboJohnJ | Jul 1st, 2009 02:49:11 PM | Thanks for the review, Capone! by Mr. Nice Gaius | Jul 1st, 2009 02:52:27 PM | RIP Karl Malden.... by PennsyDeux | Jul 1st, 2009 02:55:53 PM | this is a rental by fassbinder79 | Jul 1st, 2009 02:56:43 PM | AsimovLives by em_tee_em | Jul 1st, 2009 02:57:20 PM | Knives Out For Michael Mann by fassbinder79 | Jul 1st, 2009 02:57:44 PM | It was kind of dull by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 02:59:14 PM | LargoJr, why sick of Depp? by TheLastCleric | Jul 1st, 2009 03:00:05 PM | em_tee_em by Mr. Nice Gaius | Jul 1st, 2009 03:01:13 PM | Preview screenings by dancetothebeatofthelivingdead | Jul 1st, 2009 03:01:25 PM | Caroll Baker and Eli Wallach
better be looking over their
should by Alfred_Packer | Jul 1st, 2009 03:03:07 PM | em_tee_em by Mr. Nice Gaius | Jul 1st, 2009 03:03:34 PM | KARL MOTHERFUCKING MALDEN by dancetothebeatofthelivingdead | Jul 1st, 2009 03:04:02 PM | em_tee_em, RE: The Wolf Scene
in Collateral by TheLastCleric | Jul 1st, 2009 03:04:42 PM | Any Comparison to 1974's
Dillinger? by Aquatarkusman | Jul 1st, 2009 03:05:18 PM | Saw this at a screening by RobertCrane | Jul 1st, 2009 03:06:01 PM | Mann and Hi-Def by Mosquito March | Jul 1st, 2009 03:06:40 PM | I hope it makes more money
than Year One by cylon_conspiracy | Jul 1st, 2009 03:08:59 PM | double whammey deaths today by filmfanatic1 | Jul 1st, 2009 03:09:24 PM | Ah fuck, RIP Karl Malden by YackBacker | Jul 1st, 2009 03:10:01 PM | Sad about Malden. by Vic Twenty | Jul 1st, 2009 03:12:06 PM | Are we over the dead Scarecrow
yet??? by Samuel Fulmer | Jul 1st, 2009 03:12:43 PM | hahah once again the thread
rarely talks about the by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 03:13:29 PM | RIP Malden... by Heckles | Jul 1st, 2009 03:14:38 PM | Oh yeah, by dancetothebeatofthelivingdead | Jul 1st, 2009 03:14:40 PM | Thanks Mr. Nice Gaius by em_tee_em | Jul 1st, 2009 03:14:47 PM | Like it or not Mann has moved
on with HD by Samuel Fulmer | Jul 1st, 2009 03:14:49 PM | Jon Stewart called it the
other night on The Daily Show by skimn | Jul 1st, 2009 03:16:03 PM | Sick of Depp by LargoJr | Jul 1st, 2009 03:16:42 PM | Don't see this movie! Keep
Transformers No. 1 at the box
office! by Sithdan | Jul 1st, 2009 03:17:49 PM | It will be forgotten in a
month. by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 03:18:11 PM | TheLastCleric... by em_tee_em | Jul 1st, 2009 03:19:34 PM | Well, his HD looks like shit. by Mosquito March | Jul 1st, 2009 03:20:29 PM | I liked it but... by Opt | Jul 1st, 2009 03:21:47 PM | HEAT yes MOHICANS yes VICE no
thanks by soloaj | Jul 1st, 2009 03:22:24 PM | RIP Karl Malden by chrth | Jul 1st, 2009 03:23:09 PM | ... and it's MyrNa Loy by chrth | Jul 1st, 2009 03:25:18 PM | Saw an early screening of
Public Enemies and by IHaveSeenEveryEpisodeOfPrisonB
reak | Jul 1st, 2009 03:27:09 PM | i just watched On the
Waterfront and... by Lashlarue | Jul 1st, 2009 03:36:56 PM | But... by palpatinefuckedmydog | Jul 1st, 2009 03:43:06 PM | HEAT is vastly overrated... by Fa Fa Fooey | Jul 1st, 2009 03:45:23 PM | Heat overrated in comparison
to by Samuel Fulmer | Jul 1st, 2009 03:47:08 PM | HEAT is appropriately rated by YackBacker | Jul 1st, 2009 03:51:16 PM | Just watched"Thief" again.
WoW. Great movie! by jah_kingdom | Jul 1st, 2009 03:55:41 PM | Righteous Kill was superior to
Heat by Samuel Fulmer | Jul 1st, 2009 03:57:04 PM | I also saw an early screening by maxbrown | Jul 1st, 2009 03:58:25 PM | I need to attend the Heat
convention by Samuel Fulmer | Jul 1st, 2009 03:58:57 PM | Talking Al Pacino Vincent Hana
doll by Samuel Fulmer | Jul 1st, 2009 04:00:34 PM | Mann needs to direct a fantasy
film by ganymede3010 | Jul 1st, 2009 04:05:07 PM | A "Talking Al Pacino Vincent
Hana Doll"?! by Mr. Nice Gaius | Jul 1st, 2009 04:11:21 PM | you want an amazing pacino
fig? check out this $1000
thing by ironic_name | Jul 1st, 2009 04:11:30 PM | Fuck you maxbrown by YackBacker | Jul 1st, 2009 04:12:39 PM | you need to be a k-citizen to
even be in the lottery to win
one by ironic_name | Jul 1st, 2009 04:13:38 PM | Saw Thief on Showtime for
first time last week. by GQtaste | Jul 1st, 2009 04:15:05 PM | 60% on Rotten Tomatoes by WalkenLives | Jul 1st, 2009 04:18:23 PM | So CAPONE likes a movie about
Chicago gangsters? by RICHARD_GERE_RAPED_MY_GERBIL | Jul 1st, 2009 04:25:42 PM | "Who? Who?" by Mosquito March | Jul 1st, 2009 04:29:06 PM | Cotillard is a crackpot by rainbowtrout1265 | Jul 1st, 2009 04:42:40 PM | The Lady in Red - movie about
Dillinger's girlfriend by johnnyangel | Jul 1st, 2009 04:49:18 PM | ironic_name, that Vincent
Hannah doll creeps me out by YackBacker | Jul 1st, 2009 04:50:37 PM | every other review ive read
has panned this by aclockworkkebab | Jul 1st, 2009 04:51:41 PM | Depp's had plenty of flops in
his career by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 05:03:21 PM | Capone does not exist in this
dojo by Cobra--Kai | Jul 1st, 2009 05:06:48 PM | Heat beats the living shit out
of Rightgeous kill! by darwinmayflower | Jul 1st, 2009 05:08:27 PM | by Cobra--Kai | Jul 1st, 2009 05:08:35 PM | how accurate was this
historically? by rainbowtrout1265 | Jul 1st, 2009 05:09:52 PM | COLLATERAL was a great Mann
Movie and Cruise's best by ZombieHeathLedger | Jul 1st, 2009 05:10:29 PM | by Cobra--Kai | Jul 1st, 2009 05:13:25 PM | Finally a movie I would spend
$ to see by kafka07 | Jul 1st, 2009 05:13:35 PM | Depp may have been good in
Sweeny Todd by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 05:14:53 PM | The handheld camera stuff
REALLY bothered me by CherryValance | Jul 1st, 2009 05:15:30 PM | rainbowtrout1265 by NoHubris | Jul 1st, 2009 05:18:37 PM | Cherry does not exist in this
dojo by Cobra--Kai | Jul 1st, 2009 05:26:21 PM | So white makeup equals not
real acting? by MattmanReturns | Jul 1st, 2009 05:26:57 PM | Lockesbrokenleg, Sweeney Todd
made $152 million by MattmanReturns | Jul 1st, 2009 05:29:47 PM | I thought box office didn't
equal quality on this board? by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 05:32:22 PM | by Cobra--Kai | Jul 1st, 2009 05:35:54 PM | Lol, man up and move on by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 05:38:42 PM | Great review Capone. I'm going
to this. by hallmitchell | Jul 1st, 2009 05:48:17 PM | Cobra--Kai by CherryValance | Jul 1st, 2009 05:48:44 PM | by Cobra--Kai | Jul 1st, 2009 05:52:04 PM | Martin Landau won the Oscar
for Ed Wood you jackass by GQtaste | Jul 1st, 2009 05:54:54 PM | YACKBACKER by IHaveSeenEveryEpisodeOfPrisonB
reak | Jul 1st, 2009 05:59:32 PM | lockes doesn't like movies... by WillardGreensThunderballs | Jul 1st, 2009 06:00:11 PM | No, I think people here don't
like movies by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 06:06:48 PM | Like he's going to critcize
the movie after sucking Mann
off by Glory_Fades_ImMaxFischer | Jul 1st, 2009 06:11:54 PM | lockesbrokenleg by IHaveSeenEveryEpisodeOfPrisonB
reak | Jul 1st, 2009 06:19:58 PM | lockesbrokenleg by MattmanReturns | Jul 1st, 2009 06:35:32 PM | And Ed Wood was fucking
brilliant too by MattmanReturns | Jul 1st, 2009 06:37:18 PM | The Hard Way by planescrashdown | Jul 1st, 2009 06:39:17 PM | In fact, I'd say Ed Wood is
Burton's best film by MattmanReturns | Jul 1st, 2009 06:42:24 PM | Mann is my pick to direct
CONAN by Logan_1973 | Jul 1st, 2009 06:48:34 PM | I'm a HUGE Mann fan and Miami
Vice is underrated! by Dogmatic | Jul 1st, 2009 06:51:17 PM | Logan_1973... except he'll
film it digitally by MattmanReturns | Jul 1st, 2009 06:52:07 PM | Why Mann's HEAT is important: by Logan_1973 | Jul 1st, 2009 07:04:41 PM | I saw this movie already by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 07:13:36 PM | I don't think the Epic movies
are dying, either by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 07:15:03 PM | A yawn fest by jcrewrower2 | Jul 1st, 2009 07:46:24 PM | DUDE-IT IS 'PEEKS', NOT
'PEAKS'!!!!!!!!!!! by akiraclass | Jul 1st, 2009 07:54:48 PM | Bale is always getting
outshined by his co-star by zooch | Jul 1st, 2009 07:55:39 PM | Just saw it. 8/10 in my book. by Kief_Ledger | Jul 1st, 2009 08:25:39 PM | aintitcool will suck this
mediocre films cock for sure by TheDark0Knight | Jul 1st, 2009 09:17:36 PM | No Action Scenes for Nick Fury
in Iron Man 2 by IHaveSeenEveryEpisodeOfPrisonB
reak | Jul 1st, 2009 09:52:56 PM | Sweeney Todd a flop? by Noddy93 | Jul 1st, 2009 10:08:29 PM | Sweeney Todd a flop? by Noddy93 | Jul 1st, 2009 10:09:59 PM | Why Michael Mann is up to
stuff... by Sithtastic | Jul 1st, 2009 10:10:08 PM | if notm2 can beat t4 by Jesiah | Jul 1st, 2009 10:11:34 PM | bale is my generation's penn by Jesiah | Jul 1st, 2009 10:14:44 PM | I saw it today...a TOTAL DUD by Tarl_Cabot | Jul 1st, 2009 10:48:52 PM | re: Bale getting outshined by
co-stars by Nasty In The Pasty | Jul 1st, 2009 11:10:54 PM | The bad buzz seems to be
turning. by Subtitles_Off | Jul 1st, 2009 11:11:41 PM | Bale to marry attention whore. by Subtitles_Off | Jul 1st, 2009 11:13:19 PM | I wanted it to be longer by lokiboy101 | Jul 1st, 2009 11:20:20 PM | Saw it today by IamZardoz | Jul 1st, 2009 11:23:39 PM | I expected to "like" it as I
do Manns weak films, but I
LOVED it by flickchick85 | Jul 1st, 2009 11:26:35 PM | FFS Capone- by Squilookle | Jul 1st, 2009 11:28:33 PM | And the HD cinematography was
CRUCIAL to my enjoyment. by flickchick85 | Jul 1st, 2009 11:32:31 PM | I actually think Bale out
shined Depp in this movie by odo19 | Jul 1st, 2009 11:34:20 PM | Pee Wee is still Burton's Best by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 1st, 2009 11:57:15 PM | flickchick by CherryValance | Jul 2nd, 2009 12:05:09 AM | Friend I saw it w/said it was
the worst film of the
summer...... by The Dum Guy | Jul 2nd, 2009 12:15:25 AM | Cherry by flickchick85 | Jul 2nd, 2009 12:27:37 AM | CHRISTIAN BALE IS A HUMAN
COCKROACH! by CHRISTIAN_BALE_TRASHED_MY_LIGH
TS | Jul 2nd, 2009 12:53:35 AM | maybe Ill have to go see this
again by TheDark0Knight | Jul 2nd, 2009 12:59:57 AM | I for one.... by Uridium | Jul 2nd, 2009 02:31:44 AM | What? by Sgt.Steiner | Jul 2nd, 2009 02:50:59 AM | Really well written review by zapano | Jul 2nd, 2009 03:58:19 AM | New Avatar poster... by henrydalton | Jul 2nd, 2009 04:08:38 AM | Couldn't believe audience
reaction to this tonight by drturing | Jul 2nd, 2009 04:10:12 AM | And after watching
Transformers 2 by drturing | Jul 2nd, 2009 04:11:30 AM | Needs more GIANT PIG by GIANT_PIG | Jul 2nd, 2009 05:45:28 AM | "a film whose ending we
already know" by Al_Shut | Jul 2nd, 2009 06:15:47 AM | ok let me spoil every movie
with a protaganist who by drturing | Jul 2nd, 2009 06:19:39 AM | Agreed On Stephen Lang as
Winstead by SoupDragon | Jul 2nd, 2009 06:33:51 AM | Saw it yesterday, great movie
BUT... by Kenshiro_187 | Jul 2nd, 2009 08:29:45 AM | Michael Mann's "BATMAN: THE
DARK KNIGHT DETECTIVE" by JDanielP | Jul 2nd, 2009 08:52:11 AM | This movie is racist and
misogynistic! by SnowDogs | Jul 2nd, 2009 08:59:19 AM | My favorite film of '09 by Stuntcock Mike | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:02:55 AM | "YOU DO NOT GET TO WATCH MY
FUCKING TELEVISION!!!" by Stuntcock Mike | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:21:33 AM | Akira Class by evil dead 3d | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:21:44 AM | Response To ZombieHeathLedger by inhumans99 | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:21:53 AM | drturing by Subtitles_Off | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:22:31 AM | Response To ZombieHeathLedger by inhumans99 | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:23:01 AM | IF IT MAKES YOU FEEL WARM AND
SQUISHY by evil dead 3d | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:24:18 AM | BECAUSE SHE'S GOT A.....GREAT
ASS!!!!! by Kief_Ledger | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:39:50 AM | Best 'Heat' quote... by itsjust_notcool_anymore_baby | Jul 2nd, 2009 10:05:29 AM | Can't fuckin wait to see PE... by itsjust_notcool_anymore_baby | Jul 2nd, 2009 10:06:58 AM | Was going to wait for video... by fassbinder79 | Jul 2nd, 2009 11:02:42 AM | Watched HEAT for the first
time last week by estacado1 | Jul 2nd, 2009 11:09:46 AM | I GOT 2 DEAD BODIES OFF VENICE
BLVD by Reckoner | Jul 2nd, 2009 11:48:38 AM | It was great, but... by stones_throw | Jul 2nd, 2009 11:53:51 AM | by Cobra--Kai | Jul 2nd, 2009 12:01:10 PM | Painfully Tepid by LosVientos668 | Jul 2nd, 2009 12:45:22 PM | SexyWhisk's early review had
it right by SexyWhisk | Jul 2nd, 2009 12:48:47 PM | I need to talk about Mann's
influence on BATMAN. by JDanielP | Jul 2nd, 2009 01:09:51 PM | Worst Movie So Far by Gordak | Jul 2nd, 2009 01:16:10 PM | So sad/ It made even Gangsters
boring! by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 2nd, 2009 02:12:15 PM | by Cobra--Kai | Jul 2nd, 2009 02:34:06 PM | Superman does not exist in
this dojo by Cobra--Kai | Jul 2nd, 2009 02:37:08 PM | Best "Heat" quote? by ebonic_plague | Jul 2nd, 2009 02:46:50 PM | Very dull, HD Video very weak
in dark scenes by Metropolis | Jul 2nd, 2009 03:25:00 PM | "Drop of a hat, these guys
were rock and roll" by Stuntcock Mike | Jul 2nd, 2009 03:58:11 PM | Cobra--Kai by JDanielP | Jul 2nd, 2009 04:21:58 PM | Don't forget Waingro!!! by Mr. Nice Gaius | Jul 2nd, 2009 04:22:40 PM | JDanielP, great points about
Batman by MattmanReturns | Jul 2nd, 2009 04:36:58 PM | "Gangsteriffic" - that's so
non-hetero by Puddleglum | Jul 2nd, 2009 04:38:47 PM | CAUSE I WANNA PAY OFF AND GET
RID by Reckoner | Jul 2nd, 2009 04:48:43 PM | Why aren't there more Public
Enemies reviews by NoQuarter | Jul 2nd, 2009 04:53:32 PM | MattmanReturns by JDanielP | Jul 2nd, 2009 05:02:31 PM | MY FAVORITE MOMENTS from
"BATMAN BEGINS" by JDanielP | Jul 2nd, 2009 05:13:47 PM | What "BATMAN" had that "BATMAN
BEGINS" didn't. by JDanielP | Jul 2nd, 2009 05:19:40 PM | Why no Public Enemies reviews? by Metropolis | Jul 2nd, 2009 06:19:26 PM | But Michael Bay knows by CherryValance | Jul 2nd, 2009 06:29:04 PM | More HEAT quotes by pubasnacks77 | Jul 2nd, 2009 06:50:26 PM | Great film just fantastic by spectrebeeyatch | Jul 2nd, 2009 06:52:43 PM | GQ taste - re: "slick" by DennisMM | Jul 2nd, 2009 07:42:37 PM | heat quotes by Bladernner79 | Jul 2nd, 2009 07:45:28 PM | PUBLIC ENEMIES: Mann's Best
Since The Insider by Dresh | Jul 2nd, 2009 08:40:03 PM | Wow, this thread died, by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:00:39 PM | lockesbrokenleg by Bladernner79 | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:39:46 PM | Mann And Digital Photography by Dresh | Jul 2nd, 2009 09:40:29 PM | Band of the Hand by Henry Fool | Jul 2nd, 2009 11:46:21 PM | I remember Band of the Hand by CherryValance | Jul 3rd, 2009 12:46:13 AM | When Marion Cotillard gets
slugged by Anything But Tangerines | Jul 3rd, 2009 03:18:08 AM | This movie is garbage by Robert_Downey_in_blackface | Jul 3rd, 2009 07:41:28 AM | I hope to see PUBLIC ENEMIES
this weekend. by JDanielP | Jul 3rd, 2009 09:09:24 AM | Really? by moneymouth77 | Jul 3rd, 2009 11:19:26 AM | Zzzzzz by fuldamobil | Jul 3rd, 2009 12:38:05 PM | Wow, this fucker bombed worse
than Terminator by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 3rd, 2009 04:34:14 PM | there still aren't any other
reviews here by CherryValance | Jul 4th, 2009 12:10:27 AM | Goddamn was this movie boring
as hell by SoylentMean | Jul 4th, 2009 05:39:50 PM | Huge disappointment by m_prevette | Jul 5th, 2009 07:50:26 AM | individual performances were
great by nametaken | Jul 5th, 2009 09:36:59 AM | The HD camera use was jarring
and ugly by SoylentMean | Jul 5th, 2009 10:45:25 AM | The best Michael Mann movies
are... by SoylentMean | Jul 5th, 2009 10:49:06 AM | "...and to a lesser degree,
Miami Vice" by TheLastBoyScout | Jul 5th, 2009 12:31:31 PM | "...and to a lesser degree,
Miami Vice" by TheLastBoyScout | Jul 5th, 2009 12:33:16 PM | I thought this film was superb
by emeraldboy | Jul 5th, 2009 02:01:57 PM | The opening for batman returns
by emeraldboy | Jul 5th, 2009 04:06:48 PM | Saw Public Enemies on Fri by DarthSaul666 | Jul 5th, 2009 04:19:33 PM | It is not an autobiography
!!!!!! by Stan Grossman | Jul 5th, 2009 11:17:00 PM | There's more fucking character
development in Star Trek by lockesbrokenleg | Jul 5th, 2009 11:24:36 PM | Depp is no Warren Oates! by Modulok | Jul 6th, 2009 09:02:19 AM | Good but not great by Logan_1973 | Jul 6th, 2009 09:23:54 AM | Saw the movie yesterday by Jor-El23 | Jul 6th, 2009 11:13:46 AM | I cant really pinpoint why I
didnt like this movie... by Mrhazard | Jul 6th, 2009 03:53:29 PM | Someone told me that they
didn't like by Cujo_Fugate | Jul 6th, 2009 11:37:55 PM | I really did not like this
film by superfleish76 | Jul 7th, 2009 06:12:01 PM |
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