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Gangster Squad
In order to get rid of the corruption and corrupted people in Los Angeles, that run by an evil gangster, Micky Cohen, who commits many crimes, a group of cops unit up to take him down and clear Los Angeles from his corruption under the leadership of John Omara, an honest strong warrior.
1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 April 1972, Bakersfield, California, USA
21 May 1982, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
7 May 2000, San Diego, California, USA
23 March 1950, Glendale, California, USA
7 November 1964, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
31 July 1978, Hertfordshire, England, UK
17 November 1959, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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.
April 28, 2015
Gosling's smirk conveys a contempt for the material rivaled only by my own.
January 11, 2013
Gangster Squad" is a highly stylized, pulp-fiction period piece based on true events.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
February 05, 2013
Gangster Squad looks the part, but it's so superficial it practically evaporates before our eyes.
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.