******* colorful, violent, 1930s gangsters with machine guns

Rating: 7/10 (9 April 2010)

It's all about attitude and machine guns. What was John Dillinger really like? I don't know the history or the man well enough to tell you if this film captures him and his time, but it seems to do that. It feels like you are there seeing his life and understanding how he lives and thinks. You are the most wanted man in America, maybe in the history of America, and your life may end at any second. You'd like to get away from all of that and spend your days on a sunny beach somewhere, but that isn't how this story ends.
The film provides some incentive to read a little bit about Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, J. Edgar Hoover, Melvin Purvis and the FBI. I thought it was a lot of fun to watch despite the rather extreme machine-gun violence throughout the film.