It’s nearly Christmas. You’re really excited and have been
waiting for ages. You think that your parents have got you an amazing LEGO Castle
with some of your favourite minifigures. Every time you go to the cinema your
parents show you a little sneak peek at a couple of the best looking bricks.
You can’t contain your excitement. Then some idiot shoots a load of people in
the LEGO factory and Santa puts Christmas back. The Castle you are told needs
some tweaking. You wait and wait, still excited. The day finally arrives. You
rush to the cinema to open your Christmas Present and… wait. It’s not the
amazing LEGO Castle at all but some cheap imitation.
Your Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone minifigures are there and there’s even one
that looks a bit like Sean Penn, it looks great too but it isn’t what you were
hoping for.
Originally slated for release in autumn 2012 Gangster Squad was put back following
the tragic Aurora shooting in Colorado. After some reshoots to remove a
pivotal cinema shoot up the film was released in the UK in January 2013. I’d been really
looking forward to it since early 2012 but my anticipation was never going to
be met. The film tells the real life story of The Gangster Squad, a small
Police Unit given free reign to catch L.A. Gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn).
Sergeant O’Mara (Josh Brolin) brings together a crack squad of rough, strong
and smart Police to meet Cohen on his own terms and free L.A. from his grasp.
