The Titanic of gangster films

Rating: 3/10 (15 February 2010)

This film was like Titanic in that if you were half-awake in the first 20 years of your life, you know how it ends. The performances were predictable and there wasn't anything to learn. Yawn. As far as being a period piece goes, the costuming and sets and locations and automobiles worked fine. But sometimes it was too dark to see what was going on, and the sound was over-modulated, meaning the dialogue was unintelligible. Huge overlong gun-battles that were too loud are of course Michael Mann's trademark, so I shouldn't have been disappointed there were so many of them. I guess if you're going to do a docudrama, your only recourse is to put your trademark on it, whether you're Oliver Stone, or Michael Mann. Yawn. Zzzzzzz..... It wasn't even worth renting. I want my money back.