A 1930's-based master bank robbery movie with all the tommy-guns you can handle and Johnny Depp as a bad-ass gangster... I'm gonna go against apparently about half of the reviews out there and say that this one was exciting and worth the $8 I paid to see it.
It seems like about half of the reviews say that Depp was not a good fit for the lead role of John Dillinger. I disagree. I will admit it isodd seeing him in an actually normal role with a slight southern accent, as opposed to the eye-liner wearing, fruity roles of his past including Jack Sparrow, Willy Wonka, and upcoming The Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, but I don't see how someone could say that he doesn't match a role of a bad-ass bank robber. He's definitely fit for the part.
The movie is mixed with high crime gangsters, a crime-fighting cop (Christian Bale), and an oddly initialized love story with Dillinger's girlfriend. It's not much of a history lesson except for the fact that there was in fact a man named John Dillinger who robbed banks, got thrown in jail, and always seemed to escape.
If you're into the 1920's, 1930's gangster era (as I am), and the more Thompson submachine guns the better (as I think), then this one is certainly worth experiencing whether in a theater or your living room.
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