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[Kirth Gersen]

How can a Michael Mann movie possibly be this bad? Maybe because 90% of the movie, as near as I can tell, consisted of lovingly-shot close-ups of Johnny Depp's sissy mustache. Certainly acting wasn't encouraged (Depp is fully capable of doing it if the director makes him), nor was plot an issue (there didn't seem to be much of one). Coming from a standard hack, this would have been more of the usual stuff, not worth posting about. Coming from Michael Mann (Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Manhunter, Thief...) it was a travesty.

I liked the soundtrack, though!

[Sanakht Inaros]

Kirth Gersen wrote:

How can a Michael Mann movie possibly be this bad? Maybe because 90% of the movie, as near as I can tell, consisted of lovingly-shot close-ups of Johnny Depp's sissy mustache. Certainly acting wasn't encouraged (Depp is fully capable of doing it if the director makes him), nor was plot an issue (there didn't seem to be much of one). Coming from a standard hack, this would have been more of the usual stuff, not worth posting about. Coming from Michael Mann (Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Manhunter, Thief...) it was a travesty.

I liked the soundtrack, though!

I found the movie rather enjoyable. There were a couple of times I felt that Depp and Bale called in their performances, but overall, I felt it was a really good movie.