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!
User reviews Review. Top review. Watch offline. Available to download. This movie is More Like This. Jerry Wooters as Ryan Gosling.
John O'Mara as Josh Brolin. Connie O'Mara as Mireille Enos. Reviews "Bottom of the barrel, Ma! Roger Ebert January 09, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing.
At the Ready Monica Castillo. Warning Simon Abrams. Procession Matt Zoller Seitz. Film Credits. Jerry Wooters as Ryan Gosling Sgt. The style and plot of the film strongly echo Brian De Palma's classic The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery - but there are also shades of LA Confidential, the police corruption thriller set in the same era.
Perhaps most mob films follow the same plot - bad guys versus good guys, with a sultry love interest in the middle - but Brolin believes there's always an audience for this genre.
And this is an interesting hybrid. Here you have the director of a comedy like Zombieland teaming up with Sean Penn. I think it's taken the gangster flick in a whole new direction. And if you can resurrect the Western you can certainly bring back the gangster. It's just got to be done well. Critics are arguing whether that's the case. Trade magazine Variety said the film was "so far out on a limb at moments, it makes Dick Tracy look like a documentary. But it's all in the spirit of classic B movie fun".
Empire magazine wrote that "while it's not lacking in visual razzle-dazzle or blood, story-wise it rarely manages to shock or excite".
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