Gangster Squad (A) Rating: 2.83/5
Total Reviews 4
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Director: Ruben Fleischer
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Cast & Crew: Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Josh Pence, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes
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Gangster Squad Movie Review
Ratings:3/5 Review By: Renuka Vyavahare Site: Times Of India (TOI)
Gangster Squad engages and entertains you with its occasional humour, sleek slow-motion action sequences and stylized gun violence but somewhere falls short of substance and depth. As certain righteous cops fight for honour and justice, you do not feel enough for the characters.If you like to witness the battle of good versus evil, mafia and mayhem, Gangster Squad has enough fire, guns and bullets to keep you engaged! But if you seek to explore the criminal underbelly, this may be a tad too simple for your liking.
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Ratings:3/5 Review By: Elizabeth Weitzman Site: New York Times (NYT)
Fleischer’s noir-influenced focus on O’Mara and Cohen offers hints of interesting commentary
about Hollywood’s historical visions of good and evil. But it’s a strong starting point that fizzles
by the finale. Instead of expanding their sights, Fleischer and Beall narrow them, into a
repetitive and increasingly exhausting series of shootouts. By the end, those guns might as well
be held by extras, rather than some of the most talented actors of our time.
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Ratings:2.5/5 Review By: Saumya Sharma Site: BookMyShow (BMS)
Gangster Squad is a very violent film, from beginning where a man is chained to two cars and torn in half to the machine-gun battle at a hotel in the climactic scene. This film was scheduled to open in September last year however the release got stalled, following the mass killings in Colorado, wherein a scene depicting people shot mercilessly inside a movie theater had to be canned and re-shot. Director Ruben Fleischer leans too hard on the violence card, but with little return in the way of excitement, and totally at the expense of the characters and storyline. It is only Sean Penn that feels completely fresh. Perhaps he was playing a layered copy of a movie stereotype. Nonetheless, he seems to be living and breathing convincingly in another time and another place. Even if this place is only a movie fantasy. Brutal, barbaric, mixed with some good acting, a treat for all Gangster-movie lovers.
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Ratings:--- Review By: Nikhil Taneja Site: Firstpost
There is a fine line between being pulp and being corny. Gangster Squad pretends to be the latter but ends up being the former, and it’s only the masterful acting by Sean Penn and the heart put into it by Josh Brolin that just about save the day. If you must, watch Gangster Squad without any expectations, and while you may still be disappointed, at least you will not go on a binge of junk food and aerated drinks, without a care for calories, having lost all faith in Hollywood and the world at large (okay, I’m not saying I did that, but I may have…).
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