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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 8, 2009
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Johnny Depp, Christian Bale & Marion Cotillard | |
Performer: | Rory Cochrane, Billy Crudup, Stephen Lang, John Ortiz, David Wenham, John Michael Bolger, Bill Camp, Matt Craven, Emilie de Ravin, Don Frye, Spencer Garrett, Jason Clarke, Stephen Dorff, Giovanni Ribisi, Shawn Hatosy, Peter Gerety, Stephen Graham & Channing Tatum | |
Directed by | Michael Mann | |
Screenwriting by | Ronan Bennett, Michael Mann & Ann Biderman | |
Composition by | Elliot Goldenthal | |
Produced by | Michael Mann & Kevin Misher | |
Director of Photography: | Dante Spinotti | |
Executive Production by | G. Mac Brown & Jane Rosenthal |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
A seasoned genre filmmaker at the height of his game; still able to turn even one of his lesser works into something classy and gripping.
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Patrick Nabarro
3 stars out of 4 -- Director Michael Mann mounts a technically proficient, visually enthralling crime drama anchored by the low-key but captivating performance of Johnny Depp...
USA Today
Michael Mann's PUBLIC ENEMIES is a grave and beautiful work of art....It revisits with meticulous detail and convulsions of violence a short, frantic period in the life and bank-robbing times of John Dillinger...
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Depp and Bale as Dillinger and the FBI agent tracking him are excellent and the film is a consistently entertaining, thoughtful and high paced ride, that Dillinger actually did the more extraordinary actions portrayed is the only way their inclusion in a
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Sydney Morning Herald
Rating: 5/5 --
[A] beautifully crafted action movie that has brains, brawn and beauty in equal measure. Simply, stunning.
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Roll Credits
Rating: B+ --
... it was entertaining, but quite long.
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Reel Talk Online
[A]n impressive film of great formal skill, one that inescapably has a brooding dark-night-of-the-soul quality about it....The beauty and skill of the filmmaking keep you tightly in its grasp.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Johnny Depp and Christian Bale emerge from two of the biggest blockbuster series of all time (Pirates of the Caribbean and Batman, respectively) to star in this crime drama from HEAT director Michael Mann. Depp stars as charismatic 1930s gangster John Dillinger, whose notorious bank robberies have turned him into a celebrity during the Depression era. The rise in crime has J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup) desperate to have his newly created FBI take down gangsters such as Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd (Channing Tatum), and "Baby Face" Nelson (Stephen Graham). Enter Agent Melvin Purvis (Bale), an ambitious crimefighter sent to Chicago to capture Dillinger and his gang. The criminal has evaded the law before, but he is drawn to the Second City by the beautiful Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard).
Though PUBLIC ENEMIES boasts big names, it feels more like an arthouse offering than a typical gangster picture. With its intimately shot violence and 1930s setting, the film is more BONNIE AND CLYDE than GOODFELLAS. Mann and director of photography Dante Spinotti alternate between hand-held, high-quality digital cameras and more traditional film stock, giving this crime drama a carefully composed, thoroughly modern look. But the casting of the leads is vintage Hollywood: Depp could be the modern incarnation of silent star Rudolph Valentino, and Cotillard’s wide-eyed beauty--and talent--would fit right in with the starlets of the golden age. Everyone else, including Bale, fades into the background, but it’s hard to complain when Depp and Cotillard give such magnetic performances.
Though PUBLIC ENEMIES boasts big names, it feels more like an arthouse offering than a typical gangster picture. With its intimately shot violence and 1930s setting, the film is more BONNIE AND CLYDE than GOODFELLAS. Mann and director of photography Dante Spinotti alternate between hand-held, high-quality digital cameras and more traditional film stock, giving this crime drama a carefully composed, thoroughly modern look. But the casting of the leads is vintage Hollywood: Depp could be the modern incarnation of silent star Rudolph Valentino, and Cotillard’s wide-eyed beauty--and talent--would fit right in with the starlets of the golden age. Everyone else, including Bale, fades into the background, but it’s hard to complain when Depp and Cotillard give such magnetic performances.
Keywords:
Gangs
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Live-Action
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True Story
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Love Story
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Doomed Lovers
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Big City
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
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Gangsters
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FBI Agents
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1930s
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 35,202
- UPC: 025195044912
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