I saw Public Enemies last night. What everyone’s saying about a lack of character development is true. But with this kind of film, I don’t think you need to focus so much on character development. It’s more about the moment: the life of John Dillinger. He lived fast and didn’t think about tomorrow. I don’t expect his character to come to some sort of epiphany to appease Hollywood.
As it stands, I would have liked to see an exploration of the love story and longer bank heist scenes. I went into it hoping for things on the scale of the opening scene of The Dark Knight. The movie kind of glossed over what I wanted to see most.
Overall, I think the film had some great action sequences and a lot of suspense. I give it a B.
