Average at best

Rating: 3/10 (17 July 2009)

I saw the movie about 10 days ago at the cinema and I was really disappointed to see the way two of my favorite actors (Depp and Bale) were being "played" to act in this action movie with almost no action, drama with transparency that leaves no room for a thrill and on top of it all - camera work and soundtrack were both horrible. I cannot believe that this has such a high rating on IMDb and also on many other review sites, etc. Maybe if I were more familiar with the actual case of John Dillinger the movie would've been more interesting from a historic perspective, but then again isn't that the point of the movie itself - to tell the story regarding this case and be entertaining? In short - good cast, actors played their best (till what the script allowed them to do), camera - horrible, soundtrack - misguided (at times there was no theme or anything and just the background noise, which usually is improving realism, but in this case was done very inappropriate like), etc... I do respect Michael Mann's work, producing many great movies, but he might want to stay away from directing.