【英语时差8,16】强尼戴普失常之作「头号公敌」

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Johnny Depp Misfires in 'Public Enemies' It's tough to watch Johnny Depp these days when he's not wearing eyeliner and a monkey on his shoulder. Christian¹ Bale, however, looks fine without a bat suit. The pluses: "Public Enemies" looks great. Men in dark suits wage war in the marbled halls of capitalism². They lope like wolves into banks, snatch fistfuls of money and live large in the face of the Great Depression . The problem is casting. There's no electricity to the rivalry³ between Depp and Bale. Under the stewardship⁴ of a prideful J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup), the FBI strikes back at John Dillinger (Johnny Depp). Leading the manhunt is stone-faced agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale). The movie is a tussle⁵ of trigger-happy men duking it out in the Midwest under a Hoover-mandated "national war on crime." The movie's real pulse comes from French actress Marion Cotillard who plays Dillinger's girlfriend, Billie Frechette, a coat-check girl whose life changes forever when she agrees to an impromptu⁶ date. As seen through Billie's working-class eyes, the great crime wave of the early '30s was about the collateral⁷ damage. The high-octane misadventures of Dillinger and his peers captured the nation's attention, but they also shattered the lives of innocent bystanders who were gunned down or wrecked⁸ emotionally. If only Depp and Bale had matched the fire in Cotillard's eyes before the credits rolled, "Public Enemies" might've really popped.

 

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