Great Plot, Bad Execution

Rating: 7/10 (3 July 2009)

This movie is has a great plot that really brings you along for the ride and makes you love John Dillenger even though he is the bad guy, but there is terrible editing and awful film shots that make it seem more like a TV or B movie rather than an A-list movie. It shocked me at points how the sound would fluctuate from very quiet to blareingly loud for no apparent reason. And at points it seemed like the film was being shot by a high schooler on a hand-held camera rather than by a professional. Not that the movie and the acting was not amazing, but the awefulness of the editing and filming process detracted from the plot at points. The director should have been much more careful about what he was putting out because it was enough to make me very disappointed in a movie that I expected to be much higher quality for the hype it was getting.