Public Enemies

Genre: Crime/Gangster and Adaptation

Language: English

Director: Michael Mann (Miami Vice)

Cast: Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street0 , Christian Bale (Terminator Salvation), Marion Cotillard (A Good Year)
Runtime: 140 minutes

Plot:

This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night.

Watched on 31 July night with Sylvia.

ah-deng says: 3.5 / 5 It's been a long time I see Johnny Depp's clean shaved face. And Christian Bale is netiher wearing mask nor geared with metal suits too.