A little too public

Rating: 5/10 (29 July 2009)

Well, we've seen shooting in slow-motion already 40 years ago. In "Bonnie and Clyde" and in "The Wild Bunch". And we've also seen these fancy 30s suites and that kind of make-up a lot of times before.
But Dillinger reality was shabby, unglamorous and smelled fear. This is a costume show, there things like the ongoing depression is hardly seen anywhere. This film puts the sympathies on Dillinger and the antipathies on, well what had you expected, J Edgar Hoover.
If this is supposed to be a celebration of gangster anarchism, it's not helped by Johnny Depp, who is resting his talent, being quite close to overacting. The movie is a half-failure and not a very interesting one.