Review – Public Enemies

Oh Michael Mann, why do you make movies like this? The studio spent a ton of money on big stars, particularly Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis. Then they spent even more on the other trappings of big-budget Hollywood production, especially cinematography. But then the story turns out to be little more than a relentless parade of gunfights punctuated only occasionally by plot or dialogue. With this kind of picture in mind, they could have cast Lara Croft and Duke Nukem in the leads and saved a pile of cash. See if desperate