Good movie worth the watch Depp is good as usual.

Rating: 7/10 (8 February 2010)

I find it very hard to dislike basic dramas when Depp is in them. His talent is to often wasted on movies of a comic book type. This is your basic retelling of the Dillinger criminal hero of the 30s. I liked the story line. Its hard to tell the life of such a famous character in 90+ minutes and you have to fit a lot of stuff into the movie so you also tell history as well as the personal story of the character.
It's a sad story of a somewhat decent but violent criminal(Depps role) who becomes the target of governmental change in policy. The story is told in a way that you see Dillinger as a political target as the mob is forming into a business entity and the beginning of federal enforcement on a local level. Though one might find pity in how Dillinger is made the scapegoat, one has to remind themselves that he was an arch criminal and had to be stopped. But the rebel in oneself might want him to escape with his woman to a far away place.
Depp gives humanity to Dillinger and Bale does a very good job as the hunter.