Public Enemies (Single-Disc Edition)

As usual, Johnny Depp shines.

Any movie with Johnny Depp is great

Good story

Disc was in excellent condition. Movie was just ok . I have seen better takes on this story.

Micheal Mann has yet to make a bad movie. I think he is one of the best directors in Hollywood today and would say his work is comparable only to that of Terrance Malik. In all honesty I haven't liked Depp in a film since "Sleepy Hollow", this is the first time in years I think he actually became a character other than Johhny Depp. I have heard a lot of people talk poorly of this film, especially in terms of dialog and Christian Bale's performance. In my opinion, what Mann is going for, as he usually does, is a sense of realism. I have read many reviews that have said "Public Enemies" is a good film, but it's no "Heat". "Heat" has been and will always be one of my favorite films, but "Public Enemies" matches it and goes beyond it in many ways. Mann's use of digital hand cameras brings something to cinema that no other director has managed to do, making the viewer feel apart of the action and not just a voyeur. He gets close to the actors and you can actually see the imperfections of an actors face, wrinkles, scars and all. The dialog is more down to earth than it was in "Heat", while we all love watching actors have long in-depth conversations about the meaning of their characters existence, let's be honest, how often does that happen in life? While this may be why we go to the movies, it's unrealistic especially when dealing with "street smart" characters. As much as I love the coffee scene in "Heat", I find it hard to believe that a conversation between a career cop and a hardened thief would be so articulate. Bale's performance in this film is excellent. Yes, he is quiet and doesn't have a whole lot of lines, but he shouldn't. Bale's character is a man on the verge, suicidal, and unqualified to do the job he's assigned. He's more or less a paid assassin with a badge, knows it, and hate's himself for it. His dialog and actions fit his character and he plays it well. If you're looking a Hollywood blockbuster, look elsewhere. If you're looking for a smart film that is filmed beautifully and breaks the mold for how movies need to be told, it doesn't get any better. This is not a gangster film, it is just a film and despite that the fact that it won't, should win best picture this year. If you didn't like "Miami Vice" you probably won't like this. Mann once again manages to blur the line between cop and criminal, good and bad and shows men doing what they need to do to get by in the world, there viewer can't help but feel compassion for all the characters no matter what moral side they stand on. This film sets a new standard for how movies can tell a story and should be watched by anyone who truly loves cinema!

Good gangster movie

Johnny Depp did a great job as Dillinger. I had not seen this movie before. As always Johnny Depp delivers the performance that keeps your complete attention.

The movie plot was great and I should buy this movie it is a watch over and over movie for me. The characters in this movie made me feel each actor was real and not acting. Main actors made me feel bad that they got caught or died. It felt real. Excellent Movie.

Ce film mettant en vedette Johnny Depp est inspiré du film du même titre avec James Cagney

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Gran película en edición metálica alemana con castellano, el vendedor fue muy atento y profesional! De lo mejor en su género e imprescindible para completar colección sobre este tipo de cine.

Michael Mann is a director who is known for his crafting of truly exquisite movies and his unrelenting attention to detail. With such gems under his belt as Last of the Mohicans, Collateral, and the crime movie to end all crime movies Heat, it would seem that his approach reaps rich rewards. Thankfully, Public Enemies is another feather in his cap, being one of the most absorbing and beautiful films I have seen in a very long time. Public Enemies deals with a very specific time in the history of America. The year is 1933, and the country has been in the grip of the Great Depression for nigh on 4 years. Unemployment is rife, and this great upheaval in society has given rise to a new kind of criminal, the violent bank robber, the "Public Enemies" of the title. The film zooms in to show us the final thirteen months in the life of John Dillinger (a genuinely screen icon status performance by Johnney Depp), a time when he lived his life to the fullest at every available opportunity. Opening with an audacious prison break out in which Dillinger actually breaks into the Indiana state pen that he has only been released from months before in order to free the men who would go on to form his gang (including David Wenham as Harry Pierpoint and a terrific Stephen Dorff as Homer Van Meter), the film then goes on to detail Dillinger's subsequent crime spree that saw him win the dubious accolade of America's first "Public Enemy Number 1". In tandem with the story of Dillinger is the story of the fledgling FBI, an unpopular organization that is seen by many as a threat to state law, and the attempts by its first and most infamous director J Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup giving Hoover a charm that is conniving, manipulative and very believable) to obtain the powers he believes his organization needs to turn it into an effective countrywide law enforcement agency. Hoover decides to use the Public Enemies as his way to show everyone just what his agency can do, and details FBI poster boy Melvin Purvess (Christian Bale at his most intensely enigmatic) to bring down Dillinger. At it is this game of cat and mouse that forms the core of the film, coupled with Dillinger's on screen romance with hat check girl Billie Frechette (the luminous Marion Cottilard of La Vie En Rose fame, who actually manages to become more beautiful in every scene). That the couple are clearly meant to be together is never in doubt, with Depps winning screen image and cocksure portrayal of Dillinger making the electricity between the two of them both convincing and very compelling. Whilst no one in this film turns in anything less than a very good performance, with Depp in particular cementing his role as a superstar and Christian Bale never attempting to make his role into anything like showy, something that works very well indeed, the real star of this film is the film itself. Part romance, part procedural thriller, part action movie, it is on almost every level an unqualified success. With a level of detail that is both minute and stunning, the film feels as much like a historical document as it does a slice of Hollywood entertainment. But that's not to say that it is not entertaining, far from it. Clocking in at a hefty 140 minutes, the film sucks the viewer in to such a degree that its simply whizzes by, rarely pausing for breath before giving us incredible scene after incredible scene, in particular John Dillinger's arrival by plane in Indiana which is simply beautiful, and an intense extended shootout at a forest hideout between Dillinger's gang and the FBI led by Purvess that is almost the equal of the now famous LA gun battle in Heat, as well as numerous small moments within the film that are almost to numerous to mention (except Depps vault over a counter during an early bank robbery that is followed lovingly in slow mo). To say that Michael Mann has done it again would be to do this epic and beautiful movie a disservice. Whilst some will see the films lack of a wider scope as something of a let down, the focus on a very specific period in America's past gives the proceedings an immediacy that makes the bigger picture superfluous. Utterly riveting, simply stunning to watch and surprisingly light on its feet given its running time, this is that rare thing, a movie that is both intelligent and entertaining.