Saw this tonight with the Five Tool Ninja as part of our occasional Man Movie Madness. It's a period piece starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, where Depp plays Depression-era mobster John Dillinger, and Bale plays the FBI agent who's on his trail.Every gangster movie, on some level, glorifies the gangster, but director Michael Mann seems hell-bent on trying not to... despite making Dillinger clearly the hero in this piece, albeit a flawed one. Depp is good as always, and he's got some chemistry with girlfriend/moll Marion Cotillard, and a few exceptional set pieces, most involving the ballet-like moves of the mobsters as they rob banks or spring people from prisons. But the dialogue is a little lacking -- Depp has a few good lines, but not many -- and at the end of it all, you really do wonder what the point was, on some level. I know more about Dillinger now, but I still don't have a ton of insight into what made Melvin Purvis (Bale) tick, or if the Chicago mafia really gave D...
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