Trailer is much better than the movie

Rating: 6/10 (2 July 2009)

After seeing an excellent trailer for this movie, I was excited to see what appeared to be a good 30's era crime action movie. I was wrong. After such great works as The Aviator, Miami Vice, and the Kingdom, Mann proceeded to mix all of these styles together and make a mildly disappointing movie. The camera work was smooth one second and jerky the next. The movie was about 45 minutes too long, and Mann could not decide whether or not to make the movie historically perfect or entertaining. This movie was good, it just dragged and at times seemed eclectic. The best I've heard it described was "The Assassination of Jesse James meets Miami Vice." At first I thought Depp was a good cast as Dillinger, but as the movie rolled on, his accent got worse and worse. Bale continued to you variations of his Batman, much to my dismay. The most important miss was the "action" scenes. They were not exciting, poorly shot, and anti-climatic.
I gave it a 6/10 because of the slow moving plot, and mediocre acting dragged down a great story and loads of potential.