A good movie

I already saw this movie, in fact, I even saw it in the movie theatre when it was released, but since it was a while back, I was quite eager to check it out. To be honest, I was expecting more from this flick. Indeed, nowadays, Johnny Depp keeps releasing some flops but, at the time, he was at the height of his popularity, making one hit after the other and many of his movies were very well received. So, when I heard that he was making a movie with Michael Mann, I thought it would be really amazing. At the time, when I first saw it, since I was a big fan of Michael Mann and of Johnny Depp, I think I had a very ‘groupie’ reaction and did end up overestimate the actual end-result in the process. So, it was a good thing to watch it again with slightly less worshipping of Mann and Depp going on and, indeed, it wasn’t so great after all. On the other hand, even if it didn’t turn to be such a masterpiece, I have to admit that it was still a good flick though. Indeed, the directing was solid and I didn’t really mind the fact that it was shot digitally but you wonder if the movie wouldn’t have looked better with some good old 35mm film. Furthermore, there was an impressive cast involved but the story was somehow a little bit underwhelming. In my opinion, they never really managed to make Dillinger really fascinating and even though you spend more than 2 hours with the guy, you still don’t learn much about him after all. Anyway, to conclude, my rating was actually a little bit too generous the first time around but it was still a very enjoyable and entertaining picture and anything directed by Michael Mann is always worth a look.