MooPig Movie Reviews :: "Public Enemy 2009"

Public Enemies - 2009
Johnny Depp takes on the role of Dillinger in the newest film about Public Enemy Number One. Directed by Michael Mann and also staring Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis. The film follows the charismatic Dillinger through his bank robbing career.

Photos recently appeared on the Internet from Colliard.com of Johnny Depp as John Dillinger in Michael Mann’s Public Enemy. The hair, ruby sunglasses, shirt, tie and pants easily place the actor in the depression era.
I looked at a couple of photos of the real Dillinger, and he certainly isn’t as handsome as Depp.
Michael Mann’s Public Enemy will prove out anyhow. He’s a true filmmaker. (2008; SOURCE)

"Answer the Question, or they'll put you down a Black Hole in Cook County ..."
Review by Pat "Ratta Tat" Darnellingerer, and Hub Paiges

Last Week; Bryan, TX; Out on DVD -- Romanticized warfare until half-way to the ending, Public Enemy 2009 is all that. Dillinger dies, as he is historically supposed to have --  in the end, the sole survivor of his gang, as all his loyal gangsters are deceased. They were all cut down by Special agent Purvis -- Christian Bale: "We will fight crime ... with science..." [paraphrased from movie dialogues] That's not a tough posit to accept, as we are conditioned already with lippy-masterwork Batman by C Bale.

Dillinger? He is a 1920's rock star who cuts the flab of our national money reserves like a butcher. He makes elaborate ploys for robbing institutions relieving them of large sums of **1926-1931 - FIXED Gold standard, 5 years-Backed Certified US Buck$... for his own discretionary spending.

And the Dillinger Gang use their tommy guns like cleavers, thanks to modern lab enhancing cinema tech. Fire leaps out of Depp's Dillinger's guns like flame-throwers; very impressive. In our face cinematography. ... But woe, he is ratted out by his most trusted woman friend, a lady in red... but in our 2009 Depp's version -- a new specification is presented as the "lady in orange dress under a white sweater..." [Paraphrased]

Special Agent Purvis puts the squeeze on Dillinger's illegally immigrated, lady in red-orange, friend; threatens her deportation, and, well, it spells the end for the boy rebel from Indiana. Dillinger gets fingered.

Simultaneous to the underpinning Purvis chase, the USA National Crime Fighting Budget is challenged by another ambitious young man, J Edgar Hoover. Public Enemy 2009 presents the idea that "JEH" appoints sharpshooter Purvis as Crime Syndicate Boss, while he goes about setting up his G-Men Nursery. Purvis greases each Dillinger Gangster one by one. Hang in there -- this review is almost over.

It turns out, that history was written to include big budget Federal Government Crime Fighting because it was impossible to bring criminals to justice in states where they were wanted. Dillinger Gangsters enjoyed conditions like Illinois being safe haven for them, while they had crime sprees in other states -- like Ohio. Criminals crossing state lines was okay, No extradition in those days. Finally Hoover gets his way, extradition, and criminals start standing trials in states where they did their master works.

But you will have to watch the entire first half of over-the-top bullet delivered billets of lodging, and car fantasy escapades, [or you may cat nap through them like I did] -- No less, boys with guns, or, rather, -- equivalent to the fire power of RAMBO all five eponymous series [yes five] -- to get to the truer nature of John Depp's "Dillinger." J Depp provides us transfiguration on the mount, he transfigures through to the movie's ending; as a character otherworldly, in his finial role as emotionless, walking-dead, gang-less, gangster leader.

Johnny Depp's Dillinger walks among the Pharisee Populace of the Chicago Bureau of Investigation as if a savior with a last death wish. That part, near the end, you should stick around to see ...
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Dillinger's last words are reported to have been "Bye Bye Blackbird

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1903, Dillinger was raised by his older sister after his mother died in 1907. Rebellious against his strict father from an early age, Dillinger quit school to take a job. His father moved the family to the country in an effort to keep a lid on his son's behavior, but it had little effect. After getting into trouble with the local law for stealing a car, Dillinger joined the Navy, but soon deserted and was given a dishonorable discharge.

--PHOTO: Left ... the r'ill dilli'nger....

It turns out after Navy faux-pas "... Attempted to rob a grocery store, but ... quickly caught. Following his father's advice, Dillinger confessed and was given two consecutive sentences for assault and battery with intent to rob and conspiracy to commit a felony. His received 2 to 14 years and 10 to 20 years in the Indiana State Prison.

While in prison, Dillinger learned the ins and outs of bank robbery from the pros. After his own release, he planned and arranged the break out of his friends, who soon became known as the first Dillinger gang. The second Dillinger gang was formed after he escaped from another stint in jail. Baby Face Nelson was one of it’s better known members.

Plot Summary for "The Public Enemy (1931)" Tom Powers and Matt Doyle are best friends and fellow gangsters, their lives frowned upon by Tom's straight laced brother, Mike, and Matt's straight laced sister, Molly. From their teen-aged years into young adulthood, Tom and Matt have an increasingly lucrative life, bootlegging during the Prohibition era. But Tom in particular becomes more and more brazen in what he is willing to do, and becomes more obstinate and violent against those who either disagree with him or cross him. When one of their colleagues dies in a freak accident, a rival bootlegging faction senses weakness among Tom and Matt's gang, which is led by Paddy Ryan. A gang war ensues, resulting in Paddy suggesting that Tom and Matt lay low. But because of Tom's basic nature, he decides instead to take matters into his own hands. Written by Huggo (Unknown Source)

Tom's bad way of life is constantly set up against his brother Mike's, who has a job during the day and goes to night school. Mike will enroll in the Marines to fight in WWI. He will come back and will constantly try to put Tom back on the right path. Written by Natacha Godaillier (Unknown Source)

Friends Tom and Matt go from small time to big time crime during prohibition. Tom tires of his mistress Kitty ... he pushes a grapefruit into her face ... and falls for Gwen who resists his advances except when it look as though he might dump her. When Matt is killed, Tom goes after the murderers. Written by Ed Stephan stephan@cc.wwu.edu

Great hub...great work. Back in the 1960s we had a neighbor who claimed that they killed her son and not John Dillinger. She told us that her son had been arrested twice because he looked so much like Dillinger. He had also gotten in some trouble by claiming he was Dillinger to the ladies. He went to Chicago for business. Her son dissapeared at the same time Dillinger was killed. She never heard from him again. [Tom Cornett says: SOURCE] http://hubpages.com/profile/Tom+Cornett



PHOTO's: Neither of these two women are in the movies, but they will get Last Word, if interviewed.

**Theory:
The gold exchange standard was established wherein each country pegged its currency to the US dollar and British pound which were then supposed to be backed by the dollar. When the depression began countries tried to cash in their pounds and dollars for gold. That "run" on gold forced the end of the gold exchange standard. 1926 - 1931 ...
1931-1945 - FLOATING Fiat currency, 14 years
Fiat currencies reign worldwide leading to huge economic imbalances from country to country and was of the major contributing factors to the beginning of WW2.
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