Second Trailer for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies

If you thought the first trailer for Michael Mann’s Prohibition-era gangster movie “Public Enemies” was hot stuff, the second full-length trailer should blow the doors off the barn. That means it’s really, really good. Too bad there won’t be any possible sequel to this one, because Depp’s John Dillinger looks like he has the makings of a franchise character ala Jack Sparrow. The dude oozes charisma throughout the trailer, and one presumes, throughout the movie. It’s brilliant casting if you think about it: the charming Johnny Depp as “bad guy” John Dillinger, and the stern looking Christian Bale as “good guy” Melvin Purvis. Here’s the second, glorious trailer for “Public Enemies”.

In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the incredible and true story of legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (Depp), the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public. No one could stop Dillinger. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard), to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression.

But while the adventures of Dillinger’s gang (later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham)) thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw’s capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America’s first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing “Clark Gable of the FBI”. However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis’ men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly baptized as agents), who were real gunfighters, and orchestrating epic betrayals, from the infamous “Lady in Red” to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti, were Purvis and the FBI able to close in on Dillinger.

Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Billy Crudup, John Ortiz, Emilie de Ravin, Leelee Sobieski, and Giovanni Ribisi. Michael Mann directs.

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Trailer #2 via MSN.

And for those who missed it the first time around, here’s Trailer #1: