everything you have heard about this movie is true.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

"Based on the true story" ... is the stupidest thing they could have said when talking about this film. There is so much wrong with it historically, it's unreal. Obviously they did no research at all on this. Bonnie never killed anyone,, and she sure didn't shoot some innocent home owner in the face through a car window. In this fanciful tale,, Clyde is suddenly a saxophone player. WHAT??? Where did this come from. He also has 'second sight'.... WHAT??? Where did this come from.??? Bonnie never showed up alone at a reporters home to tell her to make sure she put her name in the paper.... WHAT?? Where did this come from. Bonnie never sent her photos to a Hollywood studio... where did that come from? In this version,, they were robbing banks all over the place. In reality Bonnie and Clyde were small town crooks who usually robbed easy targets like filling stations and convenience stores. And Bonnie never took part in an actual robbery. They inserted this ridiculous character of the female reporter on the case - which didn't happen. Did some femminists get a hold of the script and demand the facts of history be changed? Now the stupidest plot points. While staying at Methvin's father's house, Clyde hears him talking on the telephone telling someone, most likely law enforcement that they are there. And yet Bonnie and Clyde return to the same house weeks later????? Even though Clyde realizes the guy is going to turn them in.? Final scene,, i dreaded seeing this,, but yup,, they did the old 'dancing puppet' thing as Bonnie and Clyde dance around in the car as the bullets hit them. Clyde was killed outright by a single shot to the head. The rest of the bullets hitting him would have him hopping around like he was on strings. But since they did this in the original version, now it's the thing to do. Fun movie to watch, but a saxophone playing , psychic Clyde Barrow?? Whew!

Slick and Good Looking TV-Movie that has some Style and Swagger with a Performance by Holiday Grainger as Bonnie with a Doll-Like Look. She Persuasively Captures Her Transformation from Glory Hound to Delusional Psychosis. Emile Hirsch as Clyde is Rather Bland and let's Bonnie Steal the Show.The Supporting Characters are OK with Holly Hunter and William Hurt doing Yeoman Work. The Romanticism is Relentless with Much Bedroom Bouncing and Pointed Pauses for Hugs and Kisses.The Movie Decides to Make the Depression-Era Gangsters Appear as Their Perfumed Newspaper Personalities. Going from Folk-Heroes to Cold Blooded Killers with the Public Taking the Cue from the Propagandized and Opportunist Newspaper Reports.This Accounts for the Inaccuracies in the Film because the Newspaper Accounts were Mostly Inaccurate Exploitations Feeding the Public what They Wanted to Read. Here the Mini-Series Makers are Feeding the Public what They Want to See. Overall, Mostly Above Average with a bit too Much Uninteresting Filler (premonitions and ballet dancing) that Drags this Down from Anything More Aspirational than Fluff.Note...The (1967) Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway Movie is a very popular and critically acclaimed Flashpoint Film of its Era.

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker really were two armed robbers in the 1930s. They really did kill a number of people and really did die in an ambush in rural Louisiana in 1934. Over the years some exaggerated stories have popped up here and there, and the writers of this version chose to use some of the exaggerations to make a more interesting story. Be that as it may, and with the disclaimer at the ending credits that many things are fictionalized, taken as a whole it is a very interesting and well-made version of the Bonnie and Clyde story.Emile Hirsch is Clyde Barrow, only about 20 or 21 when this story starts in 1930. It was also the start of the great depression, work was scarce, money was scarce, and petty thief Barrow eventually turned to armed robbery. He was arrested more than once and sent to jail. It is there he had such bad experiences that he became even more hardened and his life of crime was partly to get back at the system. But on more than one occasion he voiced an intention to "pull off one more big one and quit."Very cute young British actress Holliday Grainger is Bonnie Parker, still a teenager when she met Barrow. For whatever reasons they took to each other and soon Bonnie became Clyde's partner in crime. Grainger does a great job with the role, showing a gradual but distinct transformation in attitude as the story progresses.The other key character is William Hurt as Frank Hamer, a semi-retired lawman who was asked specifically to track down and get Bonnie and Clyde. And it is his persistence, with the help of one of Clyde's former associates, that they finally caught up with them in the rural NW Louisiana location. They made no attempt to arrest them, they just shot everything they had to make sure both of them were dead.So, even though much of the story and details surely are fabricated and not intended to be taken as fact, the core of the story over the 4 years from 1930 to 1934 is factual. I saw it as one continuous movie on Netflix streaming movies.

The true story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow is dramatic. 2013's "Bonnie and Clyde" is a miserable mess of dishonest storytelling made almost watchable by the performances of Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger and the supporting cast.In this telling of the outlaws' tale, Bonnie Parker is the prime motivator of their criminal behavior. The consequence of this conceit is to make the role of Clyde Barrow somewhat 'sensitive'. To achieve the Bonnie-is-the-bad-one theme the writers have presented patently false scenes.## SPOILER COMING ## The departures from fact in this production are too many to name here, but highlights are: Bonnie Parker did not kill Doyle Johnson on Christmas Day, 1932. But this production has her do it and the thrill-seeking manner in which she commits the murder becomes a central conflict between her and Clyde. Also, Bonnie did not participate in the shooting deaths of highway patrolmen Wheeler and Murphy on Easter Sunday, 1934. The 'eyewitness' to this event was soundly discredited. Even the scene where Bonnie and Clyde first see each other (Bonnie's wedding) is total fabrication, suggesting that the director and writers did not have the confidence to find drama in the true event ## SPOILERS ENDED ##Director Bruce Beresford and writers Joe Batteer and John Rice have opted to give a rendition of the Bonnie and Clyde story that is a supermarket tabloid version, not anything close to the true story. And frankly, the true story is a whole lot more interesting than the story being told here. Not only is the dishonesty a disservice to the audience, but it also means the actors have to create their characters from scratch, since what is in the script and on the screen does not resemble the true personalities and motivations of Bonnie and Clyde.Brucie Beresford should look back to his "Breaker Morant" roots to remind himself how a true story should be told.A definite "pass on it". Aside from just bad storytelling, it is too long and slow. Regrettably I didn't hit the fast-forward button.