Review: Gangster Squad

Gangster Squad
Cert: 15 / 113 mins / Dir. Ruben Fleischer



A brooding score, glistening sets and some slick, stylised camerawork stop Gangster Squad feeling too much like a period piece, although Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone look so out of place in 1949 it's amazing.

But despite featuring some of the most clichéd dialogue I've ever heard, I had enormous fun. Engaging characters and sporadic bursts of gleeful violence compensate for the tropes nicely.

Gangster Squad revels in its body-count.

…ish.



Yes.



Yes.



…DVD.



Yes.



Yes.



Yes!*¹





*¹ Pretty damned sure I heard one during the jailbreak sequence.

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