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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.
21 May 1988, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
24 November 1971, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
29 April 1972, Bakersfield, California, USA
13 June 1941, Buffalo, New York, USA
9 May 1974, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
19 March 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
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.
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.
April 28, 2015
Gosling's smirk conveys a contempt for the material rivaled only by my own.
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.
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.
February 05, 2013
Gangster Squad looks the part, but it's so superficial it practically evaporates before our eyes.
January 11, 2013
Gangster Squad" is a highly stylized, pulp-fiction period piece based on true events.
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.
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.
