Saturday, 26 October 2013

Cliche squad

Gangster Squad (2013)

Directed by Ruben Fleischer this film inspired by real events which stars Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn and Emma Stone. A special team of cops are put together to go outside the law and after an organised crime boss.

Despite having a lot of acting talent involved with this film the script includes nearly every genre cliché in the book and does little of interest with them. While the film claims to be based on real events it seems to have taken a pretty fictional route and leaves a number of characters, such as Emma Stone's, rather undeveloped. The direction is not bad but does not do much to make up for all the other deficiencies in this film.


2/5

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