Public Enemies
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This summer’s movies have done a good job at using small tidbits that I enjoy. Public Enemies gives us the story of notorious bank robber John Dillinger, played by Johnny Depp, and portrays him as a charismatic, protagonist-like figure. He is pursued by Christian Bale playing agent Melvin Purvis.
Christian Bale can actually play a character other than Batman! I know he was in Terminator, but I’m still convinced that John Connor was Bruce Wayne in disguise. He didn’t show many faces as Melvin Purvis. His character seemed to be just a stoic agent who just does his job day in and day out.
On the other side of the law was Johnny Depp as John Dillinger. As always, Depp plays a likable character, but this time he wasn’t eccentric.
Public Enemies had a lot of good points to it. The song at the beginning of the movie and during the bank robbery scenes was an awesome choice. It fit well with the movie. There were also some funny moments in the movie like the theater scene when the picture showed a shot of Dillinger on the screen and asked people to look to their left and right, because he may be in the audience.
There was also a classic Tommy Gun moment where the gangster stands up to the cops to be inevitably gunned down while spraying bullets everywhere.
The only thing I didn’t like was the very end where it shows the bullet go slow motion in and out of somebody’s head and it doesn’t even look real. I didn’t think that shot was necessary. Maybe it fit the actual story of John Dillinger, but they could have shot it differently. At least Public Enemies was way better than Transformers.
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