Too Bad !

Rating: 5/10 (24 July 2009)

Too bad this film attempted to go for all style and almost no substance as Michael Mann misses the boat badly . I must agree with other viewers that I just did not care about anyone on the screen , mostly because I did not know them . Mann seems to be racing thru this and neglects little details like why you should care , here's what people were going thru during the depression and it drove some people to bank robbery .No none of that is in there , two people can fall in love under any circumstances .If those circumstances are interesting people want to watch , Mann had all the ingredients but still botches the recipe .Making a inaccurate , uninteresting , unfullfilling film that one would think it would be difficult to mess up , but not impossible evidently .I'm sorry it happened this way , I was looking forward to this film .The actors try hard but there just isn't much there , why did Dillinger do what he did ? We are left to guess that . There was no feeling of the suffering depression era people and families endured , this was a great chance to inform this generation about their grandparents experiences , Mann you blew it my friend .