In Cold Blog-A blog for historical true crime fans

Public Enemies, one of the biggest releases of the summer, starred Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in a true story about an crime wave that hit the country during the 1930s. The FBI, which waged its first war on crime during the 1930s, was spearheaded by J. Edgar Hoover. The movie, based on the book written by Bryan Burrough, focuses on a handful of criminals that spread fear throughout the country. Those criminals were John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Ma Barker, Alvin Karpis and George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly.

We are going to be honest here; if you cannot take a movie that has some interesting scenes and methods of filming those scenes then you should not see this movie. Some of the scenes in the movie are very fast paced and the camera moves around almost as quickly and in the same direction as the film Blair Witch Project. The music in the film is excellent, which was produced originally for the film by Elliot Goldenthal.

You know how sometimes you sit through a movie and afterwards say that there were some scenes that should have been removed? Well, in my opinion, this movie did not have those scenes. The movie is not overly long, only two hours and 20 minutes, which flew by because the scenes really moved. The movie should be released to DVD shortly, which means that if you did not get the chance to see the movie in theaters you can rent it or purchase it once it is released.