“Gangster
Squad” is a film a lot of people may take the wrong way. Most of us thought we
were in store for a gritty, violent gangster pic, and while there is plenty of
brutality—one of the first things you see is a pair of cars rip a guy in half,
and coyotes feasting on his innards—that’s not exactly what you get. What
director Ruben Fleisher (“Zombieland”) delivers is more of a period melodrama
that just happens to tell a gangster story. Full of action, it’s also a damn
lot of cartoonish fun for a while, like a blood soaked “Dick Tracy”. “Gangster
Squad” plays out like a light movie serial, but at the end of the day, however,
you want there to be something more.
