Public Enemies is a 2009 American crime movie co-written and directed by Michael Mann. Set during the Great Depression, it focuses on the true story of FBI agent Melvin Purvis’s attempt to stop criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd. The Public Enemies full movie is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. Christian Bale plays FBI agent Purvis, Johnny Depp plays Dillinger, Marion Cotillard plays Dillinger’s girlfriend Billie Frechette, Stephen Graham plays Nelson, and Channing Tatum plays Floyd.
The source material is Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, a rip-snorting chunk of reportage by Bryan Burrough that covers a lot of ground, including Bonnie and Clyde and Machine Gun Kelly. The script, by Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman, pays lip service to Pretty Boy Floyd (Channing Tatum) and Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) but focuses tightly on Dillinger and Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), the slick-dick FBI honcho with a jones to bring down Johnny D.
Mann, a past master of fictional crime stories (Heat, Manhunter, Collateral, Thief, Miami Vice), serves up his first true-life version since 1999’s The Insider. While hardly a slave to facts, the Chicago-born Mann is obsessive about detail, shooting around the Midwest where Indiana boy Dillinger became a folk hero for robbing banks that exploited the working man during the Depression (any resemblance to then and now is purely non-coincidental). Mann shines at revealing the behavior of complex men doing corrupting jobs.
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