Script review - "Public Enemies" by Michael Mann, Ann Biberman and Ronan Bennett

I remember enjoying the film but reading the script a few years later I was disappointed. Maybe it's not as good as I remember - or I was distracted by all that Michael Mann style. It's a choppy, vignette-esque look at the Dillinger story which covers the greatest hits well enough - breaking out of prison, the shoot out at Little Bohemia Lodge, the final death at the Biograph - but isn't particularly bold or remarkable. The characters feel stock, for all the research Mann likes to do. I mean it's alright, it's just not sensational.