Gangster Squad Movie Review (Shocking: LAPD are the good guys)

imdb.com ^ | 02/03/2013 | me

[vbmoneyspender]

Just got done watching Gangster Squad and it is a great movie. It takes some artistic license but clearly gives credit to Chief Parker for keeping the mob out of Los Angeles. I've lived in Los Angeles all my life as has my father - and he often has talked about how Chief Parker went Roman on the mafia in the 1950's in order to keep them out of Los Angeles. As a result, Los Angeles was considered off limits to the mob. The lack of corruption in Los Angeles from the 1950's on thru the 1980's was an important reason why Los Angeles was able to grow so spectacularly and this lack of corruption was due largely to Chief Parker and to the city fathers who supported him - city fathers like Norman Chandler who ran the Los Angeles Times (as a conservative paper). Things have changed for the worse, but you have to love a movie where the LAPD are unabashedly the good guys and where even Chief Gates gets a favorable mention as Chief Parker's driver.

[Prole]

I don't know WTH is wrong with the cretins at Rotten Tomatoes, but they always attack ANYTHING with a center-right theme to it. They hated Snow White And The Huntsman, and they hate Gangster Squad. Both films show the absolute triumph of good forces over evil, and do so while exposing the corruption and vile nature of the evil characters.

Rotten Tomatoes is probably run by homosexuals or other form of democrat much like the New York Times.

I wouldn't listen to those worthless a-holes if I were you guys. Just rent it if you don't want to buy it.