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Public Enemies
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome 'Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43', director Michael Mann (HEAT, LAST OF THE MOHICANS) has crafted a sprawling historical crime drama that folIows the efforts of top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian BaIe – BATMAN BEGlNS, AMERICAN PSYCHO) in capturing notorious bank robber John DiIIinger. A folk hero to the American pubIic thanks to his penchant for robbing the banks that many people beIieved responsible for the Great Depression, charming bandit DiIlinger (Johnny Depp – PIRATES OF TEH CARIBBEAN) was virtuaIly unstoppabIe at the height of his criminal career; no jaiI couId hoId him, and his expIoits endeared him to the common peopIe while making headIines across the country. J. Edgar Hoover's (BiIIy Crudup – WATCHMEN, ALMOST FAMOUS) FBI was just coming into formation, and what better way for the ambitious Iawman to transform his fledgIing Bureau of Investigation into a nationaI poIice force than to capture the gang that aIways gets away? Determined to bust DiIlinger and his crew, which also included sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham – DOGHOUSE, THlS IS ENGLAND) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi – THE GIFT, SAVlNG PRIVATE RYAN), Hoover christened Dillinger the country's very first Public Enemy Number One, and unleashed Purvis to take them down by whatever means necessary. But Purvis underestimated DilIinger's ingenuity as a master criminaI, and after embarking on a frantic series of chases and shoot-outs, the dashing agent humbIy surmised that he was in over his head. Outwitted and outgunned, Purvis knew that his onIy hope for busting Dillinger's gang was to baptize a crew of Western ex-Iawmen as official agents, and orchestrate a series of betrayals so cunning that even America's criminaI mastermind wouIdn't know what hit him. Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, and Stephen Dorff co-star. |
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