"Bye-bye, blackbird" (Simon reviews PUBLIC ENEMIES)

Had enough Public Enemies? I think not! In fairness, neither of us chose this film for our top shelf choice and it sure-as-hell wasn't our Michael-Mann focus point.

But it is a brilliant film to extrapolate and discuss - so much so, that though Hatter reviewed it, so did I analyse a few factors to it. I started off one paragraph by mentioning the free paper the 'Metro' as it compared the film to the Michael-Mann bomb Miami Vice -

"Metro (a local free tabloid paper here in London - and Birmingham and Manchester ...) released a review today saying that the film was akin to 'Miami Vice'. This is absolutely untrue - while you struggled to follow the convuluted plot about drugs and 'the underground' and truth and fiction and what not in 'Miami Vice', the simple plot in 'Public Enemies' gives Mann space to focus on the characters themselves. In a nutshell - its Purvis trying to catch Dillinger - but the anti-hero edge to Dillinger, the persona Depp creates, makes you root for him - even though you know Billie's prophesizing his death is true, you cannot help but be upset at the expected showdown"Metro (a local free tabloid paper here in London - and Birmingham and Manchester ...) released a review today saying that the film was akin to 'Miami Vice'. This is absolutely untrue - while you struggled to follow the convuluted plot about drugs and 'the underground' and truth and fiction and what not in 'Miami Vice', the simple plot in 'Public Enemies' gives Mann space to focus on the characters themselves. In a nutshell - its Purvis trying to catch Dillinger - but the anti-hero edge to Dillinger, the persona Depp creates, makes you root for him - even though you know Billie's prophesizing his death is true, you cannot help but be upset at the expected showdown"
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