If you want a "who done it" this will rank up there with all the greats. The ending was just so sad, but with a movie like this, that was the only way it could have and stayed true to the movie.
The first part of the movie should have been narriated by the girl if your going to narrate at the end. There should have been a hint of the tie from the begaining to the end and that was left off. This movie could have been a 2 1/2 hour epic and it turned in to 1 1/2 hr choped adventure. A waste of both Ron Perlman's and Nicholas Cage's talents. I hope the director reviews this and redoes a "Directors Cut" and releases's a better version on DVD. This one goes in the "I should have waited for the $5.00 DVD" to go on sale.
If your a Angelina, Johnny fan you can't miss this movie. But your better off waiting till it comes out on DVD for $5.00 at a discount store. There was not enought back story. There was not enough action. Over hyped advertisment and under produced movie. It was still pretty good, just not any where near as good as it should have been.
Many of you folks have read the books and I know you are disappointed when comparing the movies to the books. I never heard of the books and purchase the 1st two movies on DVD. This is the 1st of the series that the wife and I actually saw at a theater. I think it was a good sound movie that clear follows the other two in the telling of this story. We were caught up in it and taken away in the movie and thankfully not cluttered by memories of a book at this point. I would recommend this movie to any person who has not read any of the books as a pretty darn good movie. If you read the books I know you will find fault and flaws in the story line.
If it were not for all the great eye candy this movie would be a flop. But when you have the fantastic women this movie had you look at it even if it was just about the goofiest thing ever produced. This is a must for a Chick date flick for you guys that want to be "Sensitive" and get lucky later. Just be careful later when your wife or girl friend ask you which one of the hot women the screen remind you of her. (Don't go there) ha ha.
Well Robert Downey Jr is really getting into the melancholy intellectual super hero genera and doing it well. The movie got a little tedious in the middle but ended well with the great possibility of a sequel.
The John Dillinger story has been re-made several times by Hollywood and this one is better than a couple of the others I have seen. Without diving into too much detail this story does share more of the FBI side of things and how eventually they would get Dillinger. It also shows you how the law's worked back then. Johnny Depp did a great job getting across the complexity of John Dillinger.
While the excitement of having both De Niro and Pacino on the same screen lasted for the 1st five minutes and the base movie premise was pretty good it left me completely stumped. There just seemed to be something missing. There where several moments in the middle of the movie where I just became bored and was looking around at the audience instead of watching the movie. I don't know if the director missed getting the hook out into the audience or if De Niro and Pacino lost their chemistry. The movie could have been better and I don't believe I will buy it when it comes out on DVD.