Feels like a cheap student film!

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2010)

I can't stand this type of filmmaking... All rules broken... I can't believe that "Michael Mann" is as popular as he is. This movie looks cheap (like a film school project that had no budget) - Camera feels like they couldn't afford a a steady cam nor a film or RED. There are scenes where you really can tell that it is shot on a cheap video camera. Then the music is OFF, it has nothing to do with 1933 - much newer rock'n'roll - terrible... then the script is week and the dialogues very week. And the stupid closeups and fast edits make it really hard to build a connection to the characters. If it wasn't for great actors in this movie, this would have gone straight to the worst movies of all time, and probably would have never been produced. Sad - I had so high hopes - because I love movies out of that time-period... but everyone will forget this film, and not even know it existed in 3 years. Nothing like "The Godfather" - now that's a timeless Gangster movie - unreached. So I am done with Michael Mann - he really sucks... though "Ali" was OK, but mainly because Will Smith was phenomenal!