Comments on: Public Enemies | Eli’s Plot Twist https://www.boomtron.com/public-enemies-review/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:31:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Patti Abbott https://www.boomtron.com/public-enemies-review/#comment-3145 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:49:51 +0000 http://www.bscreview.com/?p=27703#comment-3145 I believe the movie was not meant to be the traditional character study. That’s been done before. It was an ode to the times, the story of how things changed, and in that regard, it succeeded very well. I don’t think you were meant to care for them; you were meant to take home an impressionistic view of the era. Lovely.

]]> By: Elena https://www.boomtron.com/public-enemies-review/#comment-3142 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:00:21 +0000 http://www.bscreview.com/?p=27703#comment-3142 Hm. While I agree with what you have to say about the filming (you articulated it much better than I managed to), I actually found this movie to be pretty empty in an emotional sense. I simply didn’t care about any of them, and I actually didn’t think either Bale or Depp were irreplaceable here, which is an almost unthinkable thing to say about either of them, much less both.

Good call, though, on the awesomeness of that last line. Probably the most touching moment of the whole film, for me.

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