PUBLIC ENEMIES
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 05:18PM 
Johnny Depp (above, with gun) shoots his way onto the big screen in "Pubic Enemies"
Public Enemies Will Massacre You With Quality!
Director Michael Mann and star Johnny Depp have teamed up to craft a legendary crime movie so well crafted, so relevant to our times, it will without a doubt be considered by at least one person to be one of the best films ever made!
It's 1930-something. The nation is ravaged by too much depression and not enough medication. Tired of being poor, the dashing John Dillinger takes control of his finances and stages a daring streak of bank robberies across this great nation of ours. Employing the likes of Pretty Face Nelson and Baby Boy Floyd, Dillinger becomes a sort of folk hero, a Bonnie and Clyde only without the Bonnie, until he meets up with French seductress Marion Cotillard, who plays his new girlfriend. The press package tells me that the film follows the bloody rise of this folk hero, whose story, ultimately, inevitably, and indefatigably, comes to an end.
Johnny Depp is poised to steal the Oscar in this once-in-a-lifetime performance. There seems to be no trace of his heavy accent, which has plagued him in such movies as Pirates of the Caribbean. Here, at least in the previews, Depp delivers a performance so powerful it leaps right off the YouTube page. Christian Bale shines in the role as the relentless FBI agent Melvin Peebles. Marion Cotillard delivers a performance so seductive and powerful, you may forget that she's really French.
This is filmmaking at its most compelling, its most raw, its most masterfullest. And when I eventually see the movie, I have no doubt that I'll declare it the best movie of the year.
Reader Comments (1)
What really blew me away about Michael Mann's Pubic Enemas was the fact that he shot it on video for that vintage 1930s feel. I can tell you the audience was in the throes of Depression!