Thoughts on Public Enemies...

....Starring Johnny Depp in a wide array of facial hair, a remarkably lifelike Christian Bale puppet, Marion Cotillard, and the soundtrack from Last of the Mohicans.

Public Enemies doesn't work for a couple of reasons. For one thing, it's clearly a critique on the "War on Terror" - wiretapping, "enhanced interrogation" of suspects yielding bad info, carefully placed leaks in the media, and so forth. Personal politics aside, once that became apparent it was impossible to un-see, and it detracted f