I am pissed about this film.
Michael Mann is a lackluster, as always. I won't say terrible, because he makes BIG, intricate sets, spot-on detailing and pulls the shots in close and makes actors work for the camera and he loves city-scapes.
However, this guy has no heart. If he were a novelist, he would be Stephen King. Big on ambition and and an artist with details, but no understanding of the pathos that is what humankind is made up of.
To manage to make Johgn Dillinger's story bland, with the two best actors available in film, no less, is an achievement in and of itself.
Unfortunately, Depp is directed to death and Bale was grounded and given detention for most of the film. Either that, or he phoned his performance in, in-between takes of the next Batman movie.
Go see it for the period details (awesome) and some great shots of men-with-guns, and stay for the half-arsed attack on "American justice myths" and an even more biz-ar-o attempt at a "motif" of big justice versus cruelty versus mankind versus whatever. Rudyard Kipling was more adept at that, even when he was cheerleading empire.
And the movies that they previewed had a fat, pay-check collecting non-funny Vince Vaughn.
One bright point is Johnny Depp trying to humanize and charm Dillinger's myth as a one-gal-kinda-guy (but actress is definitely b+ list, but has nice blue eyes.)
The brightest point is "The New Film By Quentin Tarantino" preview.
Looks like Brad Pitt's best, and looks like violence and sadism from credits to credits, not to mention Nazis getting their arses handed to them by guys from Brooklyn.
I cannot wait.
Michael Mann is a lackluster, as always. I won't say terrible, because he makes BIG, intricate sets, spot-on detailing and pulls the shots in close and makes actors work for the camera and he loves city-scapes.
However, this guy has no heart. If he were a novelist, he would be Stephen King. Big on ambition and and an artist with details, but no understanding of the pathos that is what humankind is made up of.
To manage to make Johgn Dillinger's story bland, with the two best actors available in film, no less, is an achievement in and of itself.
Unfortunately, Depp is directed to death and Bale was grounded and given detention for most of the film. Either that, or he phoned his performance in, in-between takes of the next Batman movie.
Go see it for the period details (awesome) and some great shots of men-with-guns, and stay for the half-arsed attack on "American justice myths" and an even more biz-ar-o attempt at a "motif" of big justice versus cruelty versus mankind versus whatever. Rudyard Kipling was more adept at that, even when he was cheerleading empire.
And the movies that they previewed had a fat, pay-check collecting non-funny Vince Vaughn.
One bright point is Johnny Depp trying to humanize and charm Dillinger's myth as a one-gal-kinda-guy (but actress is definitely b+ list, but has nice blue eyes.)
The brightest point is "The New Film By Quentin Tarantino" preview.
Looks like Brad Pitt's best, and looks like violence and sadism from credits to credits, not to mention Nazis getting their arses handed to them by guys from Brooklyn.
I cannot wait.
