Michael Mann as a director can be an acquired taste, I say acquired because for every widely praised movie he makes that has mass appeal he delivers up another which is equally as good but doesn’t gel with what audiences expect. It had happened with “Ali” splitting audiences down the middle and I would imagine that “Public Enemies” could have the same effect as whilst it’s a brilliantly made movie which delves into the final months of John Dillinger’s life it’s not the big action cliche that you might expect. It is in many ways a pure movie, not concerned with the star power of Johnny Depp and Christian Bale or with big crowd pleasing action sequences but with telling a story at it’s own pace and in it’s own style … Movie Review of Public Enemies