Public Enemies streaming free UK Channel 4, Digi Mart USA News: Public Enemies, the crime thriller starring Stephen Graham, is now available to stream for free in the UK, according to a report from Digital Spy. Released in 2009 and based on a true story, the movie stars Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, a legendary 1930s bank robber.
Christian Bale joins Depp in the cast as FBI agent Melvin Purvis, who is leading the massive FBI manhunt to capture Dillinger. Marion Cotillard stars as Dillinger’s love interest Billie Frechette, while Graham plays the real-life gangster Lester Joseph Gillis, better known as George ‘Baby Face’ Nelson.
Directed by Michael Mann, the film is based on Bryan Burrough’s 2004 book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. The movie aired last night on Film4 and is now streaming on Channel 4’s streaming service.
Viewers have 29 days left to watch before it is removed.
Public Enemies follows depression-era bank robber John Dillinger as his charm and audacity endear him to much of America’s downtrodden public. He is also a thorn in the side of J.
Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI, which leads to him becoming Public Enemy Number One.
The film was popular with critics and currently has a 68% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 277 reviews. The Los Angeles Times called it “an impressive film of great formal skill, one that inescapably has a brooding dark-night-of-the-soul quality about it.”
The San Francisco Chronicle said director Michael Mann “has taken the story of John Dillinger, and has made from it a drama full of dread and atmosphere, a 140-minute film that in no way seems long.” Time Out wrote that the film’s “ephemeral sensation” distinguishes it across its two-plus hours. The Toronto Star said Mann and co-screenwriters Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman faithfully adapt the Dillinger portion of Burrough’s book, using the same locations where famous breakouts and shootouts occurred.
