Great film!

I was so excited about seeing this film because it stars two amazing actors who have really made a name for themselves as of late and is the new film of an absolutely fantastic director. I had a very strong feeling that Public Enemies was going to be the best summer blockbuster of 2009 and after seeing it, it is!! I have heard many negative opinions about this film but to be honest I do not see anything negative at all about Public Enemies. This film has it all! It is very intense with extremely explosive action, very powerful dialogue and interesting characters. The setting was absolutely brilliant and was set perfectly for 1933 and 1934. I find Public Enemies very similar to The Dark Knight and Heat.


Two actors who were the leading actors in my favourite film of 2007 (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street) and my favourite film of 2008 (The Dark Knight) join together in this epic gangster masterpiece! Johnny Depp's performance as John Dillinger was absolutely amazing!! Johnny is one of those actors who people fall for in almost every character he plays. He was a very terrifying, powerful character in this one. I have obviously seen Johnny play a villain but I've never seen him play a gangster. I don't really want him to be in another gangster film because Public Enemies was awesome enough. Christian Bale is a fantastic actor but he was almost as good as Johnny was. Bale portrayed Melvin Purvis. What I really like about Melvin's character is that despite how hard it is to catch Dillinger he never seems to let it go but not in an obsessive way; more of a determined way. Marion Cotillard was good as well as Dillinger's girlfriend Billie Frechette. I can see Johnny and Christian earning Oscar nominations for their performances as Dillinger and Purvis.


Michael Mann has always been a director of creating crime epics. He proved that with Heat and he proves it once again with Public Enemies. I did think at first that the large amount of action would affect my liking for the film but it didn't at all. In fact, nothing affected my liking for this film at all because it was so awesome! Michael Mann directed this film absolutely perfectly! I thought it was really clever how Dillinger went downfall. It was like that with a lot of criminals within a country, city, village or whatever. Despite how intense and action packed this film is, I found it to be a really emotional film even for Dillinger and what his fate was going to be even though he did deserve it. The script was absolutely amazing! I am always fascinated by scripts about a true event or a true person because they make it so realistic like they were there at that time or being that person or a person who was with them. It must have been hard to write because it was in 1933 and 1934 which was over 75 years ago.


Public Enemies is one of my favourite crime films of all time and it totally deserves to be. It was my most anticipating summer film of 2009 and it is the best (unless Inglorious Basterds replaces it). It is the best film of 2009 so far and it is going to take a real masterpiece to overtake Public Enemies now. It is one of Depp's best and one of Bale's best films as well. It is my favourite Michael Mann film too. Public Enemies is a brilliantly filmed, well achieved, mindblowing, tense, explosive and kickass film that I absolutely love and is now one of my favourites.

9/10