I went to see Public Enemies with high expectations. I wanted to see a well crafted, exciting and thoughtful insight into the mind of a criminal. To be honest what I saw was... okay.
Seriously, all the best bits are in the trailer. We hardly see Christian Bale, which is fine by me, but at least when we do see him he isn't doing his ridiculous Batman/John Connor voice. Johnny Depp plays the lead John Dilinger, but to be honest I found his character just boring. Obviously the film is attempting to stick to the truth, but there seemed to be no depth to his character, we're given no real back story or information about him, what people think of him... We're just expected to go along and watch him become more and more miserable. I just found it a little boring - there are long periods where nothing happens, as the amazingly incompetent FBI try to catch Dilinger... And that's really about it.
It looked good, the film was shot in HD video. However at some points it did go a little jerky and almost pixely on screen. At times I was blinded by the bright tommy gun flashes and there was some serious cases of 'too zoomed in, shaking the camera about in dark scenes' so half the time I couldn't tell what was going on.
Overall, good. But not brilliant.
Overall
Obviously trying to stick to the truth - but the truth was just a little too boring. Dilinger didn't seem that interesting in this film - we had no real reason to care for him and explanation as to his past or anything like that. It was okay - ish.
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