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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.
24 November 1971, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
22 March 1967, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
5 November 1958, Marietta, Georgia, USA
6 August 1988, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
4 April 1977, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada
3 September 1963, New York City, New York, USA
23 March 1950, Glendale, California, USA
12 February 1968, Santa Monica, California, USA
2 February 1949, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
7 November 1964, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
8 June 1982, Santa Monica, California, USA
22 September 1975, Houston, Texas, USA
13 August 1975, Albany, New York, 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.
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.
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.
April 28, 2015
Gosling's smirk conveys a contempt for the material rivaled only by my own.
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.
February 05, 2013
Gangster Squad looks the part, but it's so superficial it practically evaporates before our eyes.
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.
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 11, 2013
Gangster Squad" is a highly stylized, pulp-fiction period piece based on true events.
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 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.
