Gangster Squad (Region 2 DVD | UK Import)

Extremely poor qualty of audio video of the bluray. Seems like a copy and not the original.

Ok

Los Angeles, 1949. Mobster Mickey Cohen has become the most powerful California mobster, and intends to continue spreading his influence.Of course, there are a few uncorrupted cops who don't intend to let him do that, even if they have to step outside the law. And so we get "Gangster Squad," which has a dream cast and a stylish noirish look, but also fails to really impress with storytelling or character development. It's not dreadful, but it's not as good as it should be.Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) rules the Los Angeles underworld, with the help of corrupt cops and judges. After saving a girl from some of Cohen's thugs, Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) is called in by the police chief with a very special mission: destroy Cohen's criminal empire, and send him packing from LA. O'Mara's pregnant wife Connie (Mireille Enos) isn't pleased by this.With Connie's help, O'Mara quickly assembles his "gangster squad" -- a strong street detective (Anthony Mackie), a wire-tapper (Giovanni Ribisi), a gunslinger who targets gangsters (Robert Patrick) and his partner (Michael Peña). They're also joined by Wootens (Ryan Gosling), who is having a clandestine affair with Cohen's mistress/etiquette coach Grace Faraday (Emma Stone).And after a little training, the Gangster Squad begins taking down Cohen's empire -- they attack casinos, kill Cohen's men, and basically wreck all his business. But when Cohen deduces who they are and what they're doing, he decides to strike back."Gangster Squad" is a decent movie, but it should be a truly brilliant one. It has a talented all-star cast including Penn, Gosling and Brolin, a lot of flashy gangster violence and sleaze, and it's directed by the guy who brought us "Zombieland." But somehow... just somehow... it doesn't quite gel as a film.Ruben Fleischer gives postwar L.A. a pulpy, glitzy look that grows more gritty and rough as the film unwinds. He also seems to be having a lot of fun with all the blasting guns, burning money and dramatic death scenes, such as when one man is thrown in a pool and shot.But there isn't really anything memorable during the scenes of vigilante justice. The squad just bursts in and blast away unnamed mooks, then moves on to the next target. Some parts are so painfully Hollywood that it burns -- consider the ditchwater-dull relationship between Wootens and Grace, which seems to just be in the movie because we needed a romance between two hot young people.The movie also tries to bring up the moral aspect of vigilantism (Keeler says that they're no different from Cohen) but immediately drops it without saying yea or nay. Seriously, don't do that. It just makes the story seem shallow.Fortunately, this is somewhat compensated for by the awesome casting. Sean Penn is all wiry sneering and snarling as Mickey Cohen, a sadistic thug who believes it's his "destiny" to rule the western US. Penn is not in the movie very often, but he brings an electric energy to whatever scenes he is in.Brolin is also excellent as a soldier-turned-cop who hasn't quite lost his urge to fight for what he believes in, and who wants to expunge the corruption from the City of Angels. Ryan Gosling does a passable job, even though his whole role is basically to romance Stone. And while the rest of the cast isn't fleshed out as much, we get some excellent low-key performances from Mackie, Patrick, Nick Nolte, Enos and Ribisi."Gangster Squad" should really be a much better movie than it is, but the solid acting from a great cast keeps it afloat. Worth seeing, but not necessarily keeping.

Josh Broslin , Ryan Gosling, Sean penn and Robert patrick are the names we are associated with. Production designed has done a fantastic job of creating 1950s . There are some good action scenes. Old school police drama. Don't miss it.

Pronto envío, justo lo que deseaba.

Buena peli palomera. No esperen un peliculón. No es de las mejores películas de gangsters, pero entretiene. Buena version Blu-ray.

Ich fand den Film leider ziemlich langweilig ich habe ihn mir anderst vorgstellt mit viel mehr Action aber die kommt leider erst zum Schluss und ist auch nicht besonders gut geworden. Auch das Ende empfand ich als schlecht. Leider kein guter Film.

muy buena la película pero el audio esta en español gallego y no en audio español tradicional la voy a vender

Sean Penn's performance recalls his god awful 1930s/40s "style" from the execrable We're No Angels. A whole lot of mugging - more Bowery Boys than bloodthirsty gangster. Awful. Hambone acting and dialogue. I suppose the sheer stupidity of this project dawned on the otherwise talented cast; the performances border on a parody of a period piece. What can actor do with lines such as: "Say, what's the big idea, Buster?"The "facts" run counter to what I've read and seen (not that I'm any expert) about the L.A. underworld.However, the filmmakers, obviously going for a L.A. Confidential rip-off, can be taken to task for historical inaccuracies.This even fails as shoot em up entertainment. Dumb and nihilistic, this film hasn't "earned" the right to portray such viscous - and wildly misogynistic - brutality. (Like L.A. Confidential or a Scorsese movie. Or even a horror romp.) And unlike a "B" movie/ exploitation flick - where explicit violence has a certain charm, this is just a dreary piece of hackwork; ugly and cruel.This even features a young "Daryl Gates" - later of 80s/Rodney King excesses and infamy. Which must be the most misguided -one might say stupid - idea in the history of filmdom. (Though it does provide - albeit unintentional - much needed levity to this pile of celluloid sewage.)