Public Enemies

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Yes, this film is an enemy of the public.

Why do I keep expecting Michael Mann films to be good? Well, I will expect no more. No offense to Maeve, but this film was a dog. Nothing happened. You could sense everybody trying to act their asses off and be dramatic. Nothing happens. We are all just waiting for Dillinger to die in front of the Biograph. I spoiled it for you? Doesn't everybody know that's how Dillinger died? The only evenly remotely authentic moment comes between Edith Piaf and her interrogator. Find that scene on youTube.

Dull boring bad. No more Michael Mann for me.

[Drunk Monk]

In honor of that, we went to see this last night. Ok, not really. We just went because there was nothing else worth seeing at the local multiplex. T is away at GS camp and we wanted to go out, but not far, because we're lazy that way.

It was lots of trenchcoats and tommy guns, which is always entertaining. The sound systems now really give tommy guns impact - budabudabudabudabudabuda - love that. The look of the film was great - nice costumes, period cars, sets were ok. Capt Jack, Batman and Piaf are all great, but Greg is right, there's no soul to this flick. It had the potential to offer something profoundly poetic, but defaulted to a totally predictable balckbird motif. And it wasn't quite mindless enough or well choreographed to be a good actioner. The action suffered from the dreaded wiggly camera syndrome which all DOOMers hate because it obscures good ultra-vi and makes us queasy.

The best part? Those tommy guns. budabudabudabudabudabuda. I could listen to a lot of that. RZA should make a hip hop rhythm based on that. budabudabudabudabudabuda