Film Review : public Enemies

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Title: Public Enemies
Year: 2009
Directed by: Michael Mann
Seen on: 30 July 2009
Rating: ★★★★★

 

My thoughts: It's very different to find a film of this kind which is actually original and interesting and not predictable at all. This film really made it, and the fact that it was a true story added to it even more. It's a long film but it always keeps you interested. I loved the soundtrack, the characters (Well, Johnny Depp owned his character completely) and the accents. It's not characters that are made to be liked, but they all add up to the final picture of it, and this film actually lives you with something. It's violent, funny at times, moving at others, and doesn't have only one central theme. It leaves you sort of unsatisfyed at the end, but at the same time it's the perfect ending, and the audience is aware of it.

Quotes:

John Dillinger: I like baseball, movies, good clothes, whiskey, fast cars... and you. What else you need to know?

John Dillinger: [from trailer] There is absolutely nothing I want to do in Indiana.

Melvin Purvis: What keeps you awake nights, Mr. Dillinger?
John Dillinger: Coffee.

John Dillinger: We don't work with people we don't know. And you don't work when your desperate. Walter Dietrich. Remember that?
John 'Red' Hamilton: Walter forgot. When your desperate, that's when you got no choice.