Public Enemies (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- 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: | Jason Clarke, Rory Cochrane, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, John Michael Bolger, Bill Camp, Matt Craven, Emilie de Ravin, Don Frye, Peter Gerety, Stephen Graham, John Ortiz, David Wenham, Spencer Garrett, Shawn Hatosy & 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:
Public Enemies is an oddly soft, slow, elegiac film, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Some of my best friends are elegiac films. But it seems a regrettable approach to its main subject.
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The eXile
3 stars out of 4 -- Johnny Depp continues to make great choices and plays Dillinger as both charming and sinister.
Premiere
There is much to admire in this film... But it's as if the whole thing has been emotionally cauterised. It holds you at arm's length. As such, I found it peculiarly unsatisfying. If it had been a restaurant meal, I'd have come home and had a sandwich.
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The Spectator
Yes, this is a gangster movie worth seeing, and it should be seen on the big screen.
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Maclean's Magazine
[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
Rating: 3/4 --
The lush sets and gorgeous costumes coupled with the grainy cinematography make for a totally immersive experience, pulling a modern audience into a bygone era of fast cars, tommy guns and femme fatales.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
There is no tension or suspense in the chase.
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The National (UAE)
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