Just got back from seeing this, and WORD to all of your points. All I and the folk I saw it with could say about it was that it was well-acted. Otherwise, it was just kinda of uninvolved with any of the major themes of the period. I wanted to read more about the whole fall of the bank robber/rise of the g-man period again (I did a report on it in high school). Mostly because, like you said, none of it was addressed.
They really missed the boat here. I spent so much time being distracted by famous actors being used barely at all that I never actually was able to follow their actions. Because they never spoke above the one, accented tone; they all wore hats and suits; and hardly anyone had a name until they were already dead. (I spent half the film thinking Stephen Dorff had died ages ago. Then I was sure he was in prison up until the second he was shot. WTF?)
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Date: 2009-07-05 05:03 am (UTC)They really missed the boat here. I spent so much time being distracted by famous actors being used barely at all that I never actually was able to follow their actions. Because they never spoke above the one, accented tone; they all wore hats and suits; and hardly anyone had a name until they were already dead. (I spent half the film thinking Stephen Dorff had died ages ago. Then I was sure he was in prison up until the second he was shot. WTF?)