It’s been too long since I had a chance to bash a Hans selection, but alas, having recently seen the trailers for Drag Me To Hell in between NBA Playoffs action has given me an opportunity. Unless Sam Raimi can get back some of his pre-Spidey 3 magic, Drag Me To Hell looks like another made for an opening weekend #1 cash grab, generic teen horror flick. I will be passing, as I also have not seen a genuine horror masterpiece since…since…I can’t even remember. Hopefully Midnight Meat Train fits the bill when I watch it soon.
For my #3, I pick another big name director who has fallen off his game a bit recently, with Michael Mann’s Public Enemies.
Michael Mann's Public Enemies
Title: Public Enemies
Synopsis: A crime spree during the Great Depression leads to the birth of the FBI.
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Billy Crudup
Why you should be excited too: Aside from seeing Johnny Depp vs Christian Bale with tommy guns? How about the fact that we get to see a Michael Mann story of crime in America, one of our finest directors in that genre? Mann may have definitely dropped the ball with Miami Vice, but if Public Enemies is anywhere close to some of his other works (Thief, Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Collateral), then we will soon have a crime classic on our hands.
Based on Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction book of the same name, Public Enemies will showcase Depp’s John Dillinger being chased by Bale’s Melvin Purvis. The film will not be 100% historically accurate, but according to Burrough, will be as close as Hollywood will be able to make. I am looking forward to what should be a well acted American gangster epic, with tommy gun shootouts. Public Enemies will be released on July 1, 2009, in the thick of the summer movie season.
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