Good trailer, horrible film

Rating: 4/10 (27 September 2009)

I went to see Public Enemies with quite high expectations, for the most part because of Depp and Bale and the trailer looked quite good. The 7.8 it had on IMDb at that time helped also.
But it wasn't great, it wasn't even good. The dialogues between John Dillinger and his girl (Billie Frechette) where just plain boring and completely unbelievable. The action scenes where edited in such a way that I didn't know what the hell was going on half of the time. But the worst was that the movie failed horrible in creating an emotional connection with the main character. Whether anyone died or lived? I couldn't care less.
Now the film had some good points too, the looks and feel of the time period where very authentic. You could pause the film at any time and get a great picture. And of course the acting was great. But what would you expect with such big names. But that wasn't nearly enough to save the movie.
4/10