Is it me or Michael Mann?

Rating: 3/10 (4 January 2010)

How in the world can a pretty big budget picture about John Dillinger and starring Johnny Depp drag and be boring?
Perhaps it was the over exposure of over-actor Christian Bale on screen. Sometimes you feel like a Bale, sometimes you don't.
Maybe it was the nauseating presence of the character of J. Edgar Hoover (the greatest blight on America, period. When even the very thought of that pervert is put on the screen, it reminds me that the U.S. has the infinite capacity to be as bad as any other country.
Actually, I am pretty sure it was Michael Mann. Isn't he the guy who did Miami Vice, both the Television show and the movie? Where the heck was Don Johnson and that other guy, Starsky or Erik Estrada or whoever it was?
For the first time ever, including endless Million Dollar Movies on Channel Nine and 50's gangster TV show reruns I grew up on, no one was a sympathetic character. I didn't even like John Dillinger, America's Most Wanted Sweetheart!
Bad movie, then again, maybe it's me! I should have watched Cry Baby on Hulu instead!