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Gangster Squad
Driving by his deep will of getting rid of such corruption and clear Los Angeles from criminals and gang, John Omara, a former strong honest warrior, who gets annoyed from the awful crimes of Micky Cohen, a rude gangster, team up with a group of cops to take him down, the thing that brings terrible for him.
9 May 1974, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
28 February 1954, New York City, New York, USA
13 January 1976, Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 11, 2013
Despite a cast of gifted actors, lush 1940s production design and suave costumes, it's bereft of inspiration, plowing familiar terrain past the point of tedium to impatience.
January 11, 2013
Director Ruben Fleischer and screenwriter Will Beall can't decide whether to make a spoof or a serious drama, so they wrongheadedly attempt both.
November 04, 2013
A nod toward nostalgia, a grandiose display of the arrogance of the present: this seems to be the whole program of Gangster Squad.
August 05, 2015
Okay, so maybe nobody expected Gangster Squad to be in the league of, say, Chinatown or L.A. Confidential, but even on the level of pure, bullet-spattered fun, this thing is so vaporous that it slides out of memory even while you're watching it.
April 12, 2016
Visually? Sure, it's impressive. But on all other fronts it leaves nothing but a couple muddy footprints and a signpost of misplaced potential.
January 21, 2013
Some of the clothes and makeup feel as glossy as paint, but, those aside, we seem to browsing through a display of secondhand goods.
April 28, 2015
Gosling's smirk conveys a contempt for the material rivaled only by my own.
January 11, 2013
It might sound like a stretch, imagining Penn playing that intense, indiosyncratic a villain. But the lauded, veteran actor pulls a left hook, then a right, and after a wild bodyshot at the tail end of the film, you see the true mania behind his eyes.
January 11, 2013
Gangster Squad" is a highly stylized, pulp-fiction period piece based on true events.
February 05, 2013
Gangster Squad looks the part, but it's so superficial it practically evaporates before our eyes.
June 21, 2016
Those who are calling it shallow and cartoony and clichéd are missing the point. It is all of those things, purposefully - gleefully, even.