Great story with C class direction

Rating: Null/10 (17 August 2011)

Story is set on a 1933's bank robber John Dellinger who is breaking into banks fearlessly at high frequency and leave the common people alone. He soon becomes the folk hero. Police and other law enforcement agencies failed to hunt him down.FBI director assign this task to a agent Melvin Purvis who had run down a notorious robber pretty Floyd recently. Melvin Purvis later on finds that he is too smart to be caught merely on the use of technology; he realized he needs to use street tactics as well. In spite of applying all the resources, John Dellinger still manages to escape every time. He loves a life open into public where he met Billie Frechette and fall deeply in love with her. Finally he betrayed by one of his acquaintance and shot dead by FBI agents outside of the theater.
Now come to the most important bit the critical appreciation. Beautifully shoot movie ends up way far than a great film. I personally think there were altos of deficiencies on the directional side of the movie. It seems that director of the movie try to tell the story in extreme hurry. He did not let the characters developed properly as we understand very much less about the John Dallington's any other aspect of life apart from being a robber. Johny Depp no doubt is an acknowledged actor. He has done a great justice to the cool, confident, cocky nature of the character but i feel there was not much acting margin or you can say supporting details into characters provided by the screen writer to make the character really stand out. Christian bale, another fine actor could not amuse me much. He was perfect in his looks for FBI agent but when we seen him shooting down the streets lawlessly and viewer could not find any clue about the depth of the character. I would must appreciate the cinematography on the other side. intriguing night scene, street lights, car head lights, FBI agents costumes and old gadgets such as radio and shoe polish chairs were treat to watch on screen. There are some times in movie when you like it then next moment when it comes to characters you start feeling some thing is missing. Story is been told in some way more like a documentary style rather than a movie because of the poor scene sequences. the action sequences, robberies and street shootouts were very well picturized but.......editing...could have been add much more to this crime drama. Nothing at all through the editing software has been used to bring the dramatic effect into the movie you don't see slow motion camera actions or time lapse or anything fancy. In summary expectations were quite high but its hard to ask for. It can be a date movie (who cares for the movie when some one is on date) but its not serious film. Or I rephrase it's a good movie that could have been a great but direction sucks.