too high expectations

Rating: 7/10 (24 August 2009)

It's difficult to tell why such a good and well shot film like this leaves the wrong mouth taste... but this happens. When you look too many times at your watch, the usual reason is you are not immersed in the movie.
And this is a pity. Specially when a superb Depp makes you believe you are looking at the very eyes of John Dillinger, when Bale's face is so deeply involved in his Purvis pose, and specially when production design and cinematography (a great job by Dante Spinotti) sometimes make you think you are watching a documentary instead of 'just' a movie.
Maybe the problem is that 'sometimes'. Or maybe a script that doesn't tie the spectator to the cinema chair.
A good film that could have been a great film.