1 Line Review: Action Packed Squad.
If a Crime/ Police/ Don action movie excites you, this one’s for you to watch and YOU MUST.
Kings of impeccable acting – Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling [many women went awwww as soon as he appeared on the screen:)] bring to you a crime thriller based on a true story of 1949 when a certain underworld don – Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) was supposed to be taken down by the LAPD in Los Angeles.
But then to do so the team had to be of a small group of alert and vigilant officers and the worst part, they should not be seen as from the Police department. Everything to be risked without any reward! The police chief embarks the responsibility on John (Josh Brolin) to make a strong team with smart officers to destroy Mickey Cohen’s empire but not to kill him only break him down. John’s pregnant wife helps him in recruiting by surfing thru all the officers paper files [in today’s world a simple LinkedIn profile search would have sufficed :)]. They started calling themselves – Gangster Squad. What follows is full of fun, action, drama and awesomely thrilling adventure of how they carry out this job step by step.
Josh Brolin will impress you from the very first scene, as expected. Ryan Godling (Jerry) is in his Casanova best 🙂 But the best part is Mickey Cohen himself. He is a gem and does an truly great job in showcasing a real underworld don of the 1940-50’s. The detective partner in his cowboy hat and unbeatable shooting skills plays a good role. Emma Stone had little to do, only thing I could notice about her was that her lipstick was too loud.
Not sure how many rounds of bullets were fired in the entire movie but I am sure it would be more than 10000! Yeah 🙂 A must watch. Go for it.