Gangster Squad 1080p Bluray 12: La guerre des gangs à Los Angeles comme vous ne l'avez jamais vue

note: work in progressIn 1949 post-WWII Los Angeles, gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) has become the most powerful figure in the California criminal underworld, and intends to continue to expand his criminal enterprise across the Western United States, forcing out his rivals in Chicago. The police have not been able to stop Cohen's ruthless rise, as Cohen has eliminated witnesses and bribed both the courts and the police, controlling both illegal and legal sides of L.A.The movie opens as Cohen has a gangster from Chicago killed by shackling him to two cars, which then proceed to rip him in half. He warns the gangster's partner to return to Chicago with news of what he's seen.The next day, Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) and his partner are at Los Angeles Union Station when they see one of Cohen's thugs, Mitch, approach a young woman and tell her he is holding auditions, and hands her a card to convince her he is legitimate. O'Mara realizes, however, that Mitch intends to rape her. They tail him to a building that is owned by Cohen. O'Mara's partner refuses to enter, forcing O'Mara to go inside by himself.O'Mara enters the building, telling the man that he is meeting someone. He gets on an elevator, accompanied by two thugs. Things go sour, though, when one of them sees his handcuffs and realizes that O'Mara is a cop. A fight breaks out, during which one henchman is killed and another loses his hand. O'Mara finds the room where the girl is being held captive. He bursts in and after a brawl, subdues the three men and rescues the girl.Although the gangsters are arrested, they are set free on a corrupt judge's order, and Cohen subsequently has them killed by locking them up in an elevator and burning down the building.O'Mara is personally selected by Chief Bill Parker (Nick Nolte) due to O'Mara's special operations background and training at Camp X during World War II to wage guerilla warfare on Cohen, dismantling his crime empire and forcing him out of Los Angeles. With the help of his reluctant and pregnant wife, Connie (Mireille Enos), O'Mara recruits fellow officers in his squad. Initially he is joined by hard-headed detective Coleman Harris (Anthony Mackie), wire-tapper Conway Keeler (Giovanni Ribisi), and legendary gangster-killer Max Kennard (Robert Patrick). Kennard's partner, Navidad Ramirez (Michael Pea), follows the squad and they reluctantly allow him to join. Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), O'Mara's close friend, turns down the offer, as he is disillusioned from the war and his time on the police force.Wooters has been keeping close to his old friend Jack Whalen (Sullivan Stapleton), who is his informant from within Cohen's operations. After meeting for drinks, Wooters becomes infatuated with Cohen's etiquette coach and girlfriend Grace Faraday (Emma Stone). Wooters and Grace begin a secret romantic relationship. After Cohen orders a hit on rival Jack Dragna (Jon Polito) that results in the death of Pete (Austin Adams), an innocent boy Wooters knew, Wooters becomes motivated to take down Cohen. He saves O'Mara's squad after an unsuccessful hit on one of Cohen's casinos, and later joins them.With organization and better planning the unit strikes several successful blows at the heart of Cohen's criminal organization. The media refers to them as "The Gangster Squad". After wire-tapping Cohen's house, Keeler deduces the central location of Cohen's wire gambling business, the heart of his empire. The squad successfully burns down the business, but Cohen's men inform him that they didn't take any of his money. Cohen believes they are a group of honest cops, and believes someone ratted him out and tapped his house. As his men sweep the house for bugs, Grace runs away, fearing Cohen knows of her relationship with Wooters.The Gangster Squad is lured into a trap in Los Angeles' Chinatown by Cohen's head hitman Wrevock (Troy Garity), who was also responsible for Pete's death. Wooters interrupts the ambush just in time to save O'Mara, but Wrevock escapes. Karl Lennox (Holt McCallany), Cohen's right-hand man, kills Keeler in the unit's operation. Wooters asks Whalen to get Grace out of town, but Cohen reaches him first, looking for Grace, and kills him. O'Mara's house is later hit by a drive-by, and Connie gives birth to their son under the stress. Chief Parker tells O'Mara, as a result of their failure, that their careers with the LAPD are over. O'Mara gets Connie out of town, but refuses to leave with the job unfinished. Grace tells Wooters she is willing to testify against Cohen for Whalen's murder, prompting O'Mara, along with the remaining members of his unit, to go to the Park Plaza Hotel to arrest Cohen.Cohen and his men engage in a firefight with the police unit, with Wooters being wounded in the process after killing Wrevock. Cohen and Lennox escape, but O'Mara pursues them, which results in their vehicle crashing into a fountain. Kennard gets shot by Lennox, but manages to kill him with help from Navidad, before dying from his wounds. O'Mara prepares to arrest Cohen, but Cohen tempts him into fighting each other in a bare-knuckle boxing match, while a crowd of onlookers and journalists gather. O'Mara finally beats Cohen and has him arrested, ending his reign as a crime boss and the spread of the mafia into the Los Angeles area. The Gangster Squad was never mentioned in taking down Cohen, their surviving members remaining a secret. Cohen is sentenced to 25 to life, and is welcomed violently by Whalen's friends. Grace and Wooters continue their relationship, while Navidad and Harris become partners on the force. O'Mara quits to live a quiet life with his wife and son

VIDEO and AUDIOGangster Squad features admirable period production design, though as mentioned above, its content lends more to film than the sometimes unsightly digital video it instead employs. If you can accept that choice, the dark, high-contrast 2.40:1 transfer is flawless, boasting nice, richly-saturated colors, appropriate sharpness, and no noticeable imperfections. The Blu-ray's 5.1 DTS-HD master audio offers suitable thrills, the abundance of gunfire yielding a lively, directional sound field in which to be immersed. The Blu-ray generously includes dubs and subs in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. BONUS FEATURES, MENUS, PACKAGING and DESIGNFor a new film in 2013 and one that didn't even perform well at the box office, Gangster Squad is unusually loaded with bonus features on Blu-ray.First up is the option to play the movie with "The Gangland Files" activated. This playback mode utilizes picture-in-picture to add historical context and share some behind-the-scenes footage. After an introduction from supporting cast members, this teases and features content found elsewhere on the disc. It can be teamed with the audio commentary, but its video enhancements obviously drown out portions of that track (not that you'll miss much), just like it does for the film's actual soundtrack.Fifteen Focus Points, branded "The Set-Up", can be accessed by The Gangland Files mode, popping up timed to relevant portions of the film, or viewed on their own as making-of shorts (46:28). The descendants of the lawmen dramatized here and even one surviving Gangster Squad member complement the more routine reflections of author/executive producer Paul Lieberman and the cast and crew. The topical pieces touch upon the historical basis, production and character design, filming locations, certain sequences, the real and fictional characters in the foreground, and Warner's legacy of gangster films."Then and Now Locations" (8:03), also incorporated into The Gangland Files, compares old photographs of the film's Los Angeles sites to either the location as it stands today or the movie's recreation of it. The locales include Mickey Cohen's old home and hangouts. The aforementioned audio commentary features director Ruben Fleischer all by himself. It suffers from the usual solo commentary limitations, remaining dry while humor and interaction are non-existent. Fleischer has screen-specific information to share on influences, filming locations, visual effects, and departing from historical record. It just doesn't make for a riveting two hours, although it makes for a wise item to experience in tandem with the Gangland Files mode.Next, we find a rare licensed supplement -- and the disc's only standard definition feature -- in the 1998 documentary "Rogues Gallery: Mickey Cohen" (46:44), one of ten installments in a video series narrated by actor William Devane that also apparently aired on TLC. Comprised of old photos and footage, re-enactments, and interviews with crime historians, reporters, Cohen's surviving associates and the real John O'Mara, this is on the order of a '90s A&E television special and it provides a fitting complement to the fictional film, whose portrayal of the bad guy isn't nearly as interesting as the OCD-addled, uneducated personality with many famous friends and enemies remembered here.The promotional short "Tough Guys with Style" (4:54), seemingly separated from the Focus Points purely to throw a bone to DVD customers, lets the cast and director talk about the mores of the dramatized era as reflected in the look of the characters and film. Finally, we get seven deleted scenes which run 12 minutes and 20 seconds with a brief, general Fleischer intro. They include a chase sequence, a trip to Navidad's cousin's place, a visit to the Griffith Observatory, and Cohen confronting the squad. The section glaringly lacks the movie theater sequence from the trailer behind the delay. As this is not a movie likely to be revisited anytime soon, that content seems certain to remain unavailable for the indefinite future, which is unfortunate because is anyone sensitive enough to be bothered by a deleted scene bearing slight resemblance to a 9-month-old tragedy it was shot well before? Based on the rest of the film, I doubt it's great material, but it wields obvious historical interest and could explain the movie's underwhelming status.As I expected, "Tough Guys with Style" is the only thing Warner sees fit to include on the combo pack's DVD, which is identical to the DVD sold on its own.The Blu-ray opens with an UltraViolet promo and The Great Gatsby's trailer. The DVD opens with those, then adds trailers for Bullet to the Head, Beautiful Creatures, and Man of Steel.Like most Warner discs these days, the menus of both of these recycle artwork, in this case the cover's, while looping an excerpt of score. It took my player three tries to load the Blu-ray properly, but after that, save for one additional failure, it was smooth sailing, with the disc resuming playback.The two plainly-labeled discs take opposite sides of an eco-friendly Blu-ray case, topped by an unremarkable cardboard slipcover and holding a single-sided insert with your unique UltraViolet redemption code.CLOSING THOUGHTSGiven its potentially rich subject matter and talented, accomplished makers, Gangster Squad is less than you hope and expect. Valuing style over substance, it looks nice, but sounds dumb, its problems too glaring to blame on re-edits, delays, or historically weak timing. There are far worse movies out there, but not many are as disappointing as this one.Warner's Blu-ray combo pack, on the other hand, is quite satisfactory, with its dynamite feature presentation and wealth of substantial extras. None of that makes the film any better, but it does give those who enjoyed the film more reason to consider owning it.Support this site when you buy Gangster Squad now from Amazon.com:Blu-ray + DVD / DVD / Instant Video

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