Got to check out the movie Gangster Squad about the mobster Mickey Cohen wanted to "take over" L.A. by pushing drugs and running the gambling racket. But it wouldn't be a movie without the rebbilish good guy cops to try at all costs to stop the big man. For the Gangster Squad, we get the team of Sgt. John O'Mara leading up the group of (all chosen by his pregnant wife Connie, good judge of character) Coleman Harris for stubborness, Conway Keeler for wiretapping, Max Kennard for being the cop killing bad ass with his partner Navidad Ramirez, and Sgt. Jerry Wooters, Sgt O'Mara's reluctant friend from the war and guy that has some ins to Mickey Cohen. They go "undercover" without badges, to reek havok on Mickey's operations.
The Gangster Squad go about hitting up some of Mickey Cohen's money making raquets. The initial attempts don't go well but we also don't have Sgt Jerry Wooters yet. As the team gets better at smashing an destruction they gain an underground reputation with the town and mobsters.
It obviously goes well and Mickey ends up in Alcatraz.
Don't really get to know a whole lot about the individual characters except for a brief excerpt from the movie life or the police records. Mickey causes trouble, good guys make a dent, things go bad for good guys, then good guys eventually succeed. Entertaining overall though.
During the credits: cast names are overlaid over old looking post cards from LA.
After Credits: Nothing.
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