PUBLIC ENEMY

Public Enemy,
well, after a long time i finally saw a movie which had drama in it, though it was insanely long for my Indian tastes, it was good nonetheless.
the movie starts off in the Indiana state penitentiary, were a bunch of suspicious characters help free cons, and i must say it was beautifully done, but i guess killing a cop does not count as good, and as fate may have it only a handful made it out,

The story is set in the glory days of the F.B.I, Capone is behind bars, and the feds have got a golden reputation now, with the untouchables, in this glory days of the bureau there exists a small dark mark (as always) this dark mark is in the form of a man called John Dillinger, a bank robber played stunningly by Johnny Depp ( and here i thought that jack sparrow could never be removed from my mind, now John Dillinger (JD for short) is one helluva criminal, he walks into a bank nonchalantly takes out the guard, and then fires a warning shot, then he proceeds to empty the vault of its contents, but the thing (his trade mark) is that he always allows the customers to the bank to withdraw their money and when making his escape he takes a damsel(he crushed my hopes there) and the manager or any other official, the car he uses for his escapes, well personally i think the first one was an Aston martin, and the second and third i have no idea, well after he gets into this car, his tommy guns start to spit out fire, (music to my ears) and they make their escape, ( and JD is called the public enemy no 1)

Now to tide over this crisis in comes our super cop, Melvin Puris, in the form of christian bale(now somebody tell this guy to stop looking like Tom Cruise) so, the super cop comes and tries to nail our public enemy, but the sad part is he CANNOT be jailed, to put him in JAIL for the first time he uses pro's from the FIELD, and they do apprehend him, but unfortunately he escapes, in one helluva brilliant fashion.

During the course of the movie JD falls in love, Billie Frechette played by Marion Cotillard,and the usual love scenes, though i don personally like it,(comme on it cant beat porn).

The music which plays in the background is good, gives a feel of the 30's (not that i noe how it was back in "the DAY")

MICHEAL MANN....
hats off to you, i really enjoyed this movie, and if you have the good fortune of getting a chance to see it, i assure it will be worth your time, though as i mentioned earlier the movie is painfully long :)