{"id":11762,"date":"2009-09-10T22:56:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T20:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11762"},"modified":"2009-09-11T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T22:09:53","slug":"public-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/10\/public-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A couple of days ago I went to the cinema to watch “Public Enemies<\/a>“, also known as “Johnny D”.\u00a0 I’ve been waiting for this film for a few month now, since the first time I saw its trailer.<\/p>\n

Sadly, it turned out to be a disappointment.\u00a0 There were a few good moments, yes, but overall it was rather empty.\u00a0 The story wasn’t interesting or engaging.\u00a0 The characters were many and shallow.\u00a0 There was practically no drama.\u00a0 And there was very little of action.\u00a0 Relations between different characters were also very vague, partially because there is very little dialogue and nothing happens.\u00a0 So you can’t really make it out who thinks what of who and how they all are getting along.<\/p>\n

It was also a disappointment technically.\u00a0 First of all, I am getting pretty irritated by the shaking camera these days.\u00a0 It wasn’t fun back in Blair witch times, and it isn’t fun today.\u00a0 Soft focus and purposeful mistakes which are aimed at creating an old film effect were destructing and annoying.\u00a0 Also, the choice of sound effects and music was strange at best.\u00a0 During the rare gun fights, the sound was quite crisp and surrounding.\u00a0 But during some other scenes it was either too distant or too quiet.\u00a0\u00a0 Frequent moments of no music and no dialogue without dramatic pauses felt very much like an amateur cinema.\u00a0 And on top of that, the film runs for 2 hours 20 minutes.\u00a0 Way too much.<\/p>\n

My overall rating – 3 stars<\/strong>.\u00a0 There was a lot of potential though.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

A couple of days ago I went to the cinema to watch “Public Enemies“, also known as “Johnny D”.\u00a0 I’ve been waiting for this film for a few month now, since the first time I saw its trailer. Sadly, it turned out to be a disappointment.\u00a0 There were a few good moments, yes, but overall … Continue reading Public Enemies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1706,1,24],"tags":[1572,2187,2186,2189,2185,2188,1912,2184],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-stars","category-general","category-movies","tag-christian-bale","tag-christian-stolte","tag-david-wenham","tag-giovanni-ribisi","tag-james-russo","tag-jason-clarke","tag-johnny-depp","tag-michael-mann"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t