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"FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) sets his sights on American gangster John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) and others in an attempt to curb a rampant Chicago crime spree during the 1930s."

Trailer came out today, looks great:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/publicenemies/

3/4/2009 5:35:08 PM

christian bale is the jude law of 2008-9

3/4/2009 5:37:29 PM

^how so?

3/4/2009 5:56:32 PM

by appearing in way too many movies, much as Jude Law did in 2004

3/4/2009 6:05:25 PM

i love when chris rock made fun of jude law for being in so many movies

and priss ass sean penn was like I CAN'T TAKE A JOKE AND I'M IN A MOVIE WITH JUDE LAW RAWR RAWR RAWR

douche bag

3/4/2009 8:13:06 PM

i'll definitely see this movie (I love 'ganster' style/era movies)


but i do agree with the christian bale comment

3/5/2009 12:47:58 AM

AMATEURS!

3/5/2009 1:06:05 AM

CAN'T TRUSS IT

NO NO NO NO

3/7/2009 1:45:26 AM

new trailer

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/publicenemies/

5/11/2009 10:42:15 AM

maybe this will finally get johnny depp his much deserved oscar

5/11/2009 3:06:36 PM

Nah Pirates 4 will do that

5/11/2009 3:48:57 PM

Saw trailers for this on tv today, so it must be relatively near. I am interested to see if Depp can do anything new. I am very unexcited to see Bale do anything at all. I'm a sucker for a period piece though.

6/9/2009 11:49:27 PM

6/9/2009 11:55:02 PM

hoping this won't be like American Gangster which I fucking hate.

6/10/2009 12:13:19 AM

Dillinger dies in the end.

6/10/2009 12:16:55 AM

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"hoping this won't be like American Gangster which I fucking hate."

so American Gangster sucked? I never watched it but thought it might be good. I was hoping this would be a rebound from Miami Vice, which was unbelievably awful.

6/10/2009 1:23:12 AM

saw it tonight, thought it was pretty shitty

7/2/2009 12:10:05 AM

Good story, I would have liked to have seen more action. Also not very historically accurate.

7/2/2009 12:31:22 AM

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"Also not very historically accurate."

are you serious? Do you actually know what you are talking about or are you just spewing nonsense? Here's a quote from the author of the book the movie was based on:

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"It was a genuinely eerie experience. Up and down the street, storefronts had been transformed to appear exactly as they had that night 75 years before. Even the Biograph's marquee had been reproduced in detail. Yes, I know it's just a movie, and I know most in the audience won't especially care that the details are historically accurate, but I can vividly remember looking around and smiling nevertheless, happy that, in this one small case at least, Hollywood was getting it right."

http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/la-ca-public-enemies28-2009jun28,0,176079.story

7/2/2009 2:17:34 AM

yeah, after doing some reading up, the movie was actually pretty accurate, and alluded to lots of other little things that most people probably wouldn't know unless they did some research, so i don't know what ^^ is refering to. but i still thought it sucked.

7/2/2009 2:37:54 AM

Was going to go see it, got warned off by friends. They too said it sucked. As some poster above said I'm a sucker for period pieces as well, I can wait for blu-ray tho.

7/2/2009 4:20:47 AM

Saw it last night because I too am a sucker for period pieces.

I enjoyed depp and bale, but it was rather slow moving.

7/2/2009 8:12:25 AM

how does it compare to some of Mann's latest?

7/2/2009 8:27:29 AM

damn, I dont like all of these negative reviews

7/2/2009 9:08:39 AM

same. will still see it tho

7/2/2009 9:09:23 AM

i liked it, but it did have some slow parts, and none of the characters were fleshed out very well except for dillinger. i bumped up my review to a friend because of how accurate it was, though they did take some liberties with the purvis character and the chronology of events with side characters to help tell the story. didnt bother me or anything...my biggest complaint was they never bothered explaining WHY dillinger was a folk hero at the time and WHY it was so important to hoover and the FBI that they catch these criminals. they sort of referenced it in the early court scene but coulda done a lot better. i felt this was one movie that shoulda been a bit longer.

7/2/2009 9:54:48 AM

[qutoe]how does it compare to some of Mann's latest?
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Hopefully it's better than Miami Vice, my God.

7/2/2009 10:22:08 AM

^^Longer? it was already 2.5 hours and boring.

7/2/2009 10:38:46 AM

^^see i actually truely enjoyed Miami Vice.

7/2/2009 10:47:05 AM

well, it could've been the same length and replace some of the slower, unnecessary scenes with some sort of explanatory scenes. i dont know, it just felt like if i didnt already know why dillinger was treated as a hero/celebrity, i wouldnt have had any idea. and i never once got the feeling that this was the depression era.

7/2/2009 11:28:40 AM

Decent movie. Depp and Bale were good...liked the actress too. I tempered my expectations coming in though...the two other people I went with were pretty disappointed. Definitely feel like a lot more could have been done with it.

7/2/2009 11:47:37 AM

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"Hopefully it's better than Miami Vice, my God."

seriously, that movie sucked donkey balls

7/2/2009 3:02:13 PM

Dillinger died before Baby Face. /attacks on my seriousness

I don't give a damn about scenery, I like when the actual timeline is followed.

[Edited on July 2, 2009 at 6:03 PM. Reason : .]

7/2/2009 6:01:26 PM

a couple other things i noticed...pretty boy floyd was rumored to have been involved in the dillinger/nelson co-heist, so he would've had to have been alive at the time of it if nothing else. and hollis shot floyd, not purvis.

7/2/2009 7:34:44 PM

^^ yes, a couple of events they showed happened out of order, but overall they did a very good job with all the details of the events, how they happened and what not

7/2/2009 11:36:34 PM

Channing Tatum was amazing in his 8 seconds

7/3/2009 1:38:12 AM

Would have been a better Purvis.

7/3/2009 10:20:03 AM

I didn't like it at all....not a very good movie

7/3/2009 12:18:16 PM

its better than miami vice right? but not as good as collateral or heat. im debating on seeing this tonight

7/3/2009 8:37:25 PM

it was entertaining enough i thought.. it was lacking a lot but of course was miles ahead of miami vice

7/3/2009 9:14:35 PM

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"are you serious? Do you actually know what you are talking about or are you just spewing nonsense? "

I read reviews that said that Depp was horribly miscast as he is nothing like the real Dillinger, and that the movie focused way too much on his affair with Billie Frechette (in reality, she was just another fling). It is cool that they filmed in so many of the actual locations that events happened...Ill still end up seeing this just for that and it being a period film.

7/4/2009 11:59:53 AM

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"but not as good as collateral"

god, worst movie ever.

[Edited on July 4, 2009 at 12:08 PM. Reason : EVAR]

7/4/2009 12:08:08 PM

i didnt know much about the characters, but it felt slow moving and not parituclarly exciting even during exciting times (escapes, robberies, etc).

well acted in my opinion but something was missing.

7/4/2009 1:14:26 PM

Needed more Glover

7/4/2009 1:17:45 PM

^^^ TROOF

7/4/2009 1:46:07 PM

i think it was missing camera men.

felt like most of the movie was filmed by 5th graders or the actors themselves.

also, way too long. i wanted them all to die.

7/5/2009 9:03:17 PM

I liked it but i thought it could have been alot better. Felt the same way after i saw American Gangster too. I guess the gangster genre has been overplayed.

7/5/2009 10:07:45 PM

The best part had to be when Purvis went to pick up the new agents and I thought, "Holy crap, is that Don Frye?"

7/6/2009 8:04:41 AM