A stunning brilliant film that deserves the rave reviews it will get everywhere. Mann doesn't leave any room for sentimentality or Hollywood glitz. It has as much action as a Die Hard movie but is about as different a film as you could imagine. Even the romance between Dillinger and Billie Frechette isn't presented in the way most of big budget films. We see more of their need for each other than their time together. And Dillinger isn't glamorised either, he's a brutal selfish man with a twisted view of himself and the world: he tells one man at a bank robbery not to worry because he's stealing the bank's money, not his.... but that doesn't exactly make sense when you stop and think about it. Some of the action is shot close up and has a brutal reality to it. It's a great film, and Depp is on his best form. The first film of the year that I immediately want to go back and see again.
