Great film, both technically amazing and entertaining

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2009)

This movie was fantastic.
With its A-list cast, and gifted director, this movie was everything I expected from it. All of the cast members gave outstanding depictions of the real life people. It made you feel as if you know the person.
Depp, as always, did an excellent job. He made you really believe that even though Dillinger was a bad guy, he had some good qualities about him. Any time that a movie makes you feel sympathetic towards the bad guy, you know the actors have done a great job.
Bale, gave another great performance. It was nice to hear his normal voice instead of the deep batman voice as well (haha). He seemed (IMO) to give an accurate portrayal of his character. His language, body language, and just the general tone in which he said certain lines made his character believable as well. You could tell that both Bale and Depp had spent a good amount of time researching their character before filming this movie.
Michael Mann, has done it again. Although distracting (FOR SOME), the HD camera really seemed to bring this movie to life for me. Most of the movie was slower (which most seemed to dislike, however I understand why it was necessary), so the camera becoming blurry while trying to focus was never a big problem. The HD cams also brought the shoot outs to life. I felt like the battle was actually happening right in front of me. The muzzle flash from their guns was amazing.
Another plus for this movie was that all of the filming locations were historically accurate. They used all of the buildings that the events with Dillinger actually took place in. The theater, the jail, the house in the forest, the sidewalk where he was gunned down...everything was real. The fact that they were able to use these locations for filming was very shocking (For me at least). It was VERY cool to see the place where Dillinger actually stood, and with Johnny Depp's spot on portrayal of him, it seemed like the real Dillinger was their again in the present day.
Overall, this was an outstanding movie. Both technically, and for entertainment purposes. It had everything that it needed in it. Amazing actors, great story, historically accurate, love, comedic relief, action scenes, etc. This film couldn't have been any better, and I highly encourage everyone to see it.