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Release Date: 30 July, 2002 Retail Price: $9.94 OUR Price: $6.47 You SAVE: $3.47! Cast: Complete Cast (17 total) |
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one of the best of its time
While this movie does not get the dates and locations right, it does a pretty good job of getting the "Public Enemy" era in good perspective. Each of the famous outlaws is portrayed with some accuracy to their supposed personalities in the popular mind -- Dillinger was reckless and lived to the hilt, Pretty Boy Floyd was more or less a decent sort originally driven to crime out of desperation and Nelson was a psychopathic killer. And you should view these men as being closer in spirit to the old western outlaw of the 19th century, not the urban gangsters of the 20th century. Then this becomes more of a western genre movie, a western with cars and jazz music, but still a western.
The feel of the early 30's is really well created in this film, the cars are beautiful, the filming of the American mid-West is haunting and the music is terrific, particularly that Woody Guthrie-like guitar piece that plays frequently in the rural scenes.
You may not get a historically accurate telling of the public enemy era, but you'll get a good movie whith characters you can connect with.
This is one of the best movies about those outlaws of the early depression ear and is just one small step below Bonnie and Clyde in my opinion
Cardboard Hoods
Despite the presence of an impressive cast(Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Philips, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Dreyfus)director John Milius does not so much concern himself with characterization but with staging gun battles. I will give him this much that the gun battles are pretty impressive and he does evoke the period pretty well with the antique cars and art direction. About the only idea Milius seems to present with any veracity is that the FBI, in this case in the person of Melvin Purvis(Johnson), were shameless grandstanders whose pursuit of gangsters was not so much for the public welfare but for personal glory and that point is beaten into the ground. Not a complete waste of time but this film made me long for "Bonnie and Clyde".
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