I go to the cinema to see the latest film by Michael Mann, after hearing good things about it, and intrigued to see Johnny Depp's work as a gangster ... and just start the movie I met with a grain or better digital noise oversized. Something that, arguably removing it well or not it can be in another type of film, it looked at the screen got caught, trying to understand why inducing stylistic choose that format for a gangster movie from the 30's.
After the initial shock of digital grain, and accepting that today this fashion shoot well (at the end of the day is infinitely cheaper) and Michael Mann also used when he digital Collateral ( and it does not not bad), you try to watch the movie without much frightened, but it is impossible: the realization is sudden, gross, totally illogical and choice of plans is completely unfortunate in most cases, lacking any sense, to express anything that allegedly seeks to express the film.
To make matters worse, there seems raccord lighting faults of which I was conscious (and not be an expert in photography) and moments where the film was much darker, digital noise making the rounds could be seen on the big screen photography errors as chromatic aberrations in the face of one of the characters.
I'm embarrassed for anyone exposed in the film as something that is technically inferior, but actually the truth is that all this would not be of great importance if it had a good script behind a coherent story about believable characters, but not so in any case.
Poor Johnny Depp, try as you can get into the tough skin, and is absolutely unable to get it at any time. Possibly because whatever you do, you have to pay boyish physique, and this coupled with a script that forces him to commit acts unconnected, do you turn the gallant gentleman to greater cruelty and bravado typical of a gangster, falling all topics that may be of such behavior results in a character which can hardly tell if you have any personality or has several millions.
And what happens to Johnny Depp occurs greater or lesser extent with the rest of the characters. The poor ChrisrianBale is also used by her pretty face, and the girl Johnny is a clear case of good performance marred by a pathetic script.
To this are added a predictable dialogue that seem taken from a TV movie, so as a result there is no any kind of empathy the viewer with any character (if any, is only to be finished once the torture film)
Leaving aside the characters, the story of course, hardly moving because of them, and therefore makes a hit machine gun, rifle and pistol, mounted on a completely arrhythmic. Movements camera are fully television and include a good range of sweeps, blurs continuous indiscriminate use of all types of goals without any stylistic consistency.
And despite all these blunders artistic and technical, all dyed film is presented in a grand air from the first minute, being pretentious, and makes use of a highly emotive classical music, which contrasts so blatant with the cold and disjointed performance of camera ... The only light music tracks seem to carry a little better rhythm of the film, but appear only at two dice, and no further treatment later.
In short, at least for me it's a film that has disappointed me deeply, and something that hurts is a genre film such as black, that would be wonderful to see it done with the technical means which available today. Unfortunately, it often is all in the intent. I hope not to have to swallow more messes like this in the future.
Title in English: Public Enemies
Original title: Public Enemies
Year: 2009
Country: United . UU
Director:
Michael Mann Screenwriter: Ronan Bennett , Michael Mann, Ann Biderman (Book: Bryan Burrough)
Music: Elliot Goldenthal
Photo: Dante Spinotti
Starring: ohnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Lang, James Russo, David Wenham, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke, Branka Katic, Wesley Walker, Stephen Graham, Giovanni Ribisi, Matt Craven, Channing Tatum
Company: Universal Pictures / Tribeca Productions / Forward Pass /
Misher Films Length: 140 min.
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