Terrible

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2009)

I like how this movie was able to bust the top 250 movies of all time without being officially released; that really says a lot about a movie - mainly that it was rated based on its actors rather than the quality of the film over all. The hand-held camera used in the film was terrible, reducing every action scene to nothing more than shaky flashes of light, and making everything else seem like some B-side movie. It is a shame that the acting and story were ruined by some extremely bad choices on the director's part. Public Enemies could have been a great film, and it should have been, but Mann's directorial decisions didn't give it a chance to shine, nothing could have saved this movie after the way it was shot, not even two great leading roles.