One writer's spin on books, films and beyond. A Review of Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies” with one comment Depp is the man on the run from "the man" in Mann's film. Handsome Depp Gangster Flick Lacks Depth Author: David H. Schleicher Johnny Depp (in a subdued cool swagger) is Public Enemy #1, John Dillinger, in director Michael Mann’s handsomely mounted but curiously distant riff on Depression Era Gangster Shenanigans. Christian Bale is Melvin Purvis, the G-man hunting down Dillinger’s gang, but the cat-and-mouse game never reaches the boiling point some viewers will desire, resulting in a tepid film designed to make you think you have to admire it. Lifting material from the true crime book by Bryan Burrough, the workmen-like script from Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman tries clumsily to weave in too many secondary... [read full story]
