Saw the preview. very interesting film...

Rating: 9/10 (13 February 2009)

The film was good overall. I think it's going to be a major hit, I give Michael Mann a lot of credit. There are two scenes which are beyond belief and should not be in the movie. First of all, Johnny Depp pointlessly and senselessly beats up a guy trying to get his coat from the coat check girl who Depp is trying to pick up. This violence impresses her and she decides to go home with him, apparently getting turned on by his harming a stranger for no reason. Second, there is the F. B. I. torture of a young woman who is handcuffed to a chair and beaten up, punched, hit with a phone book, etc., and forced to urinate on herself because they will not allow her to go to the bathroom. These scenes were quite out of place in this film and reminded me of James Bond being beaten in his testicles in Casino Royale which was just disgusting and turned me off the movie which was otherwise brilliant. Torture should not be depicted in film. I sometimes even like violence in film, but not pointless and senseless violence. I think Michael Mann did much better work with Heat showing bank robberies and criminal crews working together, etc. I was sick long before the end and it also made me not get involved with the characters as I might have.