Former L. More than anything, the film is marred by a connect-the-dots approach to storytelling that shoves the action from incident to incident with no thought to dramatic layering, character complexity, political nuance or twists that might buffet the drama into unexpected realms for a time.
Everything is wham! But there is incident and plenty of it, all portrayed in a brutal modern fashion rather than in a style one would ever associate with the noirish films of the era itself or with the more recent tangy, nostalgic evocations of it.
Unfortunately, all the characters are hardly more dimensional than caricatures, identifiable by one main trait and barely individualized beyond that. Heading up the team is straight-arrow Sgt. Signing up in due course are Sgt. Josh Brolin Sgt. John O'Mara as Sgt. John O'Mara. Mick Betancourt Detective Sgt. Will Hendricks as Detective Sgt. Will Hendricks. Mac Brandt Bruiser as Bruiser.
Jack McGee Lt. Quincannon as Lt. Ruben Fleischer. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. It's Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him.
Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested.
But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it's the cops.
No names. No badges. No mercy. Action Crime Drama Thriller. Rated R for strong violence and language. Did you know Edit. However, in real life Chief W. Parker set up the squad to prevent other gangsters from taking over Cohen's rackets after Cohen went to prison on income tax evasion.
Whenever the squad learned that out-of-town gangsters were coming to Los Angeles to try to set up new operations, the Gangster Squad would kidnap them, beat them up some rumors say torture and then send them back to wherever they came from with the warning that if they ever returned, they would be killed. Goofs The film gives the impression that the Gangster Squad were responsible for Mickey Cohen's arrest. In reality, Cohen was arrested in for the more mundane crime of tax evasion.
He was also not sent to Alcatraz until , over a decade after the film's time frame. Quotes Grace Faraday : He'll kill you if he finds out! Set against the backdrop of Hollywood's so-called Golden Age, the film is shot in comic-book colours and heavily influenced by the film noir of that era.
So much so that Penn's co-star Emma Stone - playing a gangster's moll - says her character "has the teeth of Vivien Leigh, Lauren Bacall's make-up, and all of it's Rita Hayworth". What is modern, however, is its brutality. Cohen is a monster who disposes of his victims in a variety of imaginative ways and gun battles break out every few minutes.
The violence is heightened but one scene, in which four armed men fire into the audience from behind the screen at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, unexpectedly and tragically took on real life significance on July 20, That night, 12 people were killed and 58 more injured when a lone gunman opened fire in a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
Within 24 hours, Warner Bros had pulled the trailer for Gangster Squad from cinemas, and the film's release date was pushed back by six months so the scene could be reshot. According to Josh Brolin, there was never any suggestion of the film being shelved, but "that scene definitely needed to be redone". It was a terrible moment for the country. Fleischer needed several weeks to restage the scene, which takes place at a pivotal moment in the story.
With several in-demand A-listers in the cast, he says he was fortunate "that everyone was able to come back, and Sean Penn came along to support us, even though he wasn't in the scene". Since the film was revised, 26 children and adults have been killed in a school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
The debate on gun control has never been more heated in the United States. Did Fleischer think that the release date should have been moved again?
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