I'd pass

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2009)

"Public Enemies" is what I would call "a typtical Hollywood film." Typical in that it glorifies the criminal and makes the cops out to be mean and vicious.
Like Mann's "Heat", we supposed to feel sympathy for the criminal because he can't be with the women he loves Kilmer/Judd and Depp/Cotillard,, who by the way, in my humble opinion is average lucking and nothing to write home about look wise. Well, let me tell you, here's a good way to assure that you spend the rest of your life with the person you love, "don't commit a crime." After seeing this film, a friend of mine said that Dillinger is "only" credited with filling four four people. Well, I think the friends, relatives, and children of those "four" people wouldn't think Dillinger a saint. And what about the other people that Dillinger may not have killed but were killed by others during one of his "fold-ups"? Today, Dillinger would be just as responsible as the person who pulled the trigger. However, according to Mann, we're supposed to feel empathy for a a criminal who kills, robs, shoots, and, well, is not the kind of guy you bring home to granny for dinner. Let's stop glorying the criminal and stop villianize the cops and maybe, just maybe, the world would be a better place.
On the technical side, TOO many close-ups, Bale is flat and could have been portrayed by any level of actor, in some case better, and Depp and the other actors are good.
Want to restore sanity to the world? Stop making the bad guys good and good guys bad and revert to the truth. Dillinger would kill you at the drop of hat if you got in his way, the police will risk their life's to save you. FYI, Michael.