Star Studded Miss

Rating: 3/10 (19 November 2014)

This remake has everything it needs except script and character development. It does bring up a couple of good valid points. The big gangs did get away from big bank robberies because they found that AT&T and the US government were so far behind in phone network security facilities that they could steal much more money using the holes that US Gov't provided. - Tax free too, even though the IRS can tax wire thieves, they are still rarely caught which means this money is tax free. Smaller item- J Edgar Hoover fired Purvis because he was a homosexual dictator who could not share power with anybody in the FBI. Later in Hoover's life he was holding back the FBI more than he was helping it. The FBI and US Gov't still have never cracked down on wire payments, years after people have learned about it.
The Dillinger story presented here is no where near the quality of the 1960's epic Bonnie & Clyde. In that one the viewer got engaged with well drawn characters. In this movie the character's are more of a sketch. The film makers did their homework here but missed the real history and made the characters card board cut outs who don't seem to relate much to each other or the audience.