| | Public Enemies DVD
| Category | Action/Adventure DVDs, Action Movies, Dramas Videos, Crime, Live-Action, True Story, Love Story, Gangs, Gangsters, Big City, FBI Agents, 1930s, Doomed Lovers | | Starring | Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Giovanni Ribisi, Shawn Hatosy, David Wenham, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, John Ortiz, Stephen Lang, Rory Cochrane, Matt Craven, Spencer Garrett, Emilie de Ravin, Stephen Graham, Jason Clarke, Bill Camp, Peter Gerety, John Michael Bolger, Don Frye | | Director | Michael Mann | | Composer | Elliot Goldenthal | | Director of Photography | Dante Spinotti | | Executive Producer | Jane Rosenthal
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Black & White; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles; Director's Comments Johnny Depp and Christian Bale emerge from two of the biggest blockbuster series of all time (Pirates of the Caribbean and Batman, respectively) to star in this crime drama from HEAT director Michael Mann. Depp stars as charismatic 1930s gangster John Dillinger, whose notorious bank robberies have turned him into a celebrity during the Depression era. The rise in crime has J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup) desperate to have his newly created FBI take down gangsters such as Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd (Channing Tatum), and "Baby Face" Nelson (Stephen Graham). Enter Agent Melvin Purvis (Bale), an ambitious crimefighter sent to Chicago to capture Dillinger and his gang. The criminal has evaded the law before, but he is drawn to the Second City by the beautiful Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard).
Though PUBLIC ENEMIES boasts big names, it feels more like an arthouse offering than a typical gangster picture. With its intimately shot violence and 1930s setting, the film is more BONNIE AND CLYDE than GOODFELLAS. Mann and director of photography Dante Spinotti alternate between hand-held, high-quality digital cameras and more traditional film stock, giving this crime drama a carefully composed, thoroughly modern look. But the casting of the leads is vintage Hollywood: Depp could be the modern incarnation of silent star Rudolph Valentino, and Cotillard’s wide-eyed beauty--and talent--would fit right in with the starlets of the golden age. Everyone else, including Bale, fades into the background, but it’s hard to complain when Depp and Cotillard give such magnetic performances. Public Enemies Reviews: 3 stars out of 4 -- "Johnny Depp continues to make great choices and plays Dillinger as both charming and sinister."-- Rob Calvert, Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "[O]rdinary scenes become electrifying experiences as Mann takes an old story and makes it feel new and unexpected....Packed with fresh tension and atmosphere..."-- Rob James, Total Film 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Depp and the vibrantly touching Cotillard give the relationship a potent intimacy....It's movie dynamite."-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 4 -- "Director Michael Mann mounts a technically proficient, visually enthralling crime drama anchored by the low-key but captivating performance of Johnny Depp..."-- Claudia Puig, USA Today 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "This Johnny Depp performance is something else....This is a very good film, with Depp and Bale performances of brutal clarity."-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "[A]n impressive film of great formal skill, one that inescapably has a brooding dark-night-of-the-soul quality about it....The beauty and skill of the filmmaking keep you tightly in its grasp."-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "Michael Mann's PUBLIC ENEMIES is a grave and beautiful work of art....It revisits with meticulous detail and convulsions of violence a short, frantic period in the life and bank-robbing times of John Dillinger..."-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times "[M]arvelously detailed and meticulously crafted, an elegant evocation of Depression-era America and its fascination with crime."Wall Street Journal Public Enemies | List Price | $29.98 (You save $7.79) | | Studio | Universal Studios Home Video | | Orig Year | 2009 | | CD Universe Part number | 7798726 | | Catalog number | 61105315 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | New Public Enemies DVD release date Dec 08, 2009 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 140 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled |
Public Enemies DVD Region [unknown]
Widescreen - 2.39
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
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