Gangster Squad
No Names. No Badges. No Mercy.
Release Date: Friday, January 11, 2013
Rating:
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and—if he has his way—every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.
Studio:
Warner Bros
Director:
- Ruben Fleischer
Cast:
- Sean Penn
- Ryan Gosling
- Emma Stone
- Josh Brolin
- Michael Peña
- Nick Nolte
- Anthony Mackie
- Mireille Enos
- Giovanni Ribisi
- Holt McCallany
- Robert Patrick
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Pietro Filipponi
Managing Editor
Gangster Squad is a campy modernization of LA Confidential and The Untouchables with a dash of The Avengers pulpiness thrown in for kicks. When it tries to take itself too seriously it falls flat, but when the characters are allowed to play freely in their ultra-stylized 1940's surroundings it's pretty fantastic. If you go in expecting plenty of violence and cheeky storytelling/dialogue you might have lots of fun like I did.