The Vendetta: FBI Hero Melvin Purvis's War Against Crime, and J. Edgar Hoover's War Against Him
Movie Moxie (Free subscription) | yesterday
... being on the run. Public Enemies follows John Dillinger, a bank robber played by Johnny Depp and Melvin Purvis, the man set on catching him played by Christian Bale. Michael Mann is no stranger to the double protagonist film and here he takes what could have been a cat and mouse game to a different level but showing the two characters story lines evolve separately, yet concurrently....
Cinematical (Free subscription) | yesterday
... | Buy at Amazon Public Enemies Johnny Depp as John Dillinger? With Christian Bale hunting him as Melvin Purvis and Billy Crudup playing J. Edgar Hoover? It's a project that should've raked in the dough, but only made back its hefty budget in its foreign take. Nevertheless, in his review , Jeffrey M. Anderson wrote: "The real person has become disconnected from his own legend,...
Watch Free TV Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Boy" Floyd (Channing Tatum), and "Baby Face" Nelson (Stephen Graham). Enter Agent Melvin Purvis (Bale), an ambitious crimefighter sent to Chicago to capture Dillinger and his gang. The criminal has evaded the law before, but he is drawn to the Second City by the beautiful Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard). Though PUBLIC ENEMIES boasts big names, it feels more like...
Cinema Viewfinder (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... of Mann's voyeuristic look at the conflict between gangster John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) and G-man Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale). Mann's explorations into the codes of masculinity, so representative of his entire body of work, has become increasingly transcendent over the course of his last three films. Whereas Collateral was initially criticized for being too on the nose in its...
