1,349 96 Play trailer 2:33 17 Videos 99+ Photos Action Biography Crime The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. Director Michael Mann Writers Ronan Bennett Michael Mann Ann Biderman Stars Christian Bale Johnny Depp Christian Stolte Public Enemies is a 2009 American biographical crime drama film directed by Michael Mann, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman. It is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough 's 2004 non-fiction book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.
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Michael Mann 's "Public Enemies" accepts that stark fact and refuses any temptation to soften it. Dillinger was not a nice man. Here is a film that shrugs off the way we depend on myth to sentimentalize our outlaws. There is no interest here about John Dillinger's childhood, his psychology, his sexuality, his famous charm, his Robin Hood legend. R 2009, Crime/Drama, 2h 20m 68% Tomatometer 281 Reviews 59% Audience Score 250,000+ Ratings What to know Critics Consensus Michael Mann's latest is a competent and technically impressive. Universal Public Enemies Director: Michael Mann Genre: Crime, Drama Running Time: 143 minutes Rated R: Violence, Sex Scenes, Profanity With: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard,. Depp is an almost absurdly attractive man. His handsomeness has assumed a sleek, leonine quality in early middle age, and he is always watchable. But my problem with Depp is that it's as if he is.
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Public Enemies. Film; 3 out of 5 stars. Advertising. Time Out says. 3 out of 5 stars. Two of the finest actors of their time. The hunter and the hunted. A Michael Mann crime classic. But enough. Working in his trademark epic-crime-drama mode, Heat director Michael Mann delivers a satisfying and absorbing portrait of the rise and fall of 1930s bank robber John Dillinger in Public Enemies. In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era. Director Michael Mann returns to the cops and criminals genre with Public Enemies, based on Bryan Burrough's book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.
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June 24, 2009 2:23am Michael Mann's John Dillinger movie "Public Enemies" is slow to heat up and never quite comes to a boil. The elements certainly are here with the always charismatic. If John Dillinger had not existed, in other words, Michael Mann would have had to invent him. Loosely based on Bryan Burrough's book, Mann's Public Enemies takes plenty of historical liberties.
From award-winning director Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral) comes the film inspired by one of the country's most captivating and infamous outlaws -- John Dillinger. Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean series) stars as the charismatic and elusive bank robber marked by the FBI as America's first "Public Enemy Number One." Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) plays Billie. Directed by Michael Mann. Screenplay, Ronan Bennett, Michael Mann, Ann Biderman, based on the book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34," by Bryan Burrough.
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It's a Michael Mann film, so the set-pieces are pulled off with aplomb, but Public Enemies is a strangely unmoving experience, says Rob Mackie Published: 12 Nov 2009 DVD review: Public Enemies Introducing our special issue, John Patterson meets Public Enemies director Michael Mann and hears where John Dillinger's 'white-hot trajectory' fits into his macho career Thu 25 Jun 2009 19.01.
