Visually flat, storytelling is linear and one dimensional, acting is good, but overall this movie sucks.

Rating: 4/10 (26 July 2009)

Great looking actors and actresses, fantastic sets and old cars, etc.. boring ass story, repetitive scenes linear storytelling and after a while the whole thing just seems like a drab rehash of the previous ten minutes.. and so on.
This is a big budget flop because they didn't spend very much time with the script and thinking about how to tell the story in an interesting way.. we see a lot of guys in suits with their hair done in the old fashion shooting tommy guns at each other while driving old cars.. again, and again and again.. the whole thing comes off very 1 dimensional and flat and if you have watched 20 minutes of this movie.. you have seen the rest of it.. because it keeps doing the same thing over and over again. The depth of the characters is very limited to what they are doing and never why, there's some pillow talk here and there but even that is boring. This movie reminded me of American Gangster a lot in that it used big name actors, spent a lot of money on an old time set and wardrobe and when it was time to deliver the character development so we actually gave a damn about what was happening on the screen.. nothing is there.
This movie is watchable but it's very very flat and linear in the presentation.
PLOT: John Dillinger is a bank robber J. Edgar Hoover is out to get him sending Mr. Purvis after him.. they chase him around and they shoot tommy guns at each other a lot.. and then they do it again.. and again.. and again and... snore.