I'm not going to say this film was just okay. It was great, but compared to other gangster films, like Little Caesar, it doesn't hold up as much. Crime dramas have become a personal favorite of mine, but this movie doesn't have as much conflict as I would have enjoyed. Like most films, it is fast-paced and doesn't show Cagney's gradual rise to power appropriately. He does one job, gets rich, then goes down, resulting in an anti-climactic ending.
Review of The Public Enemy
