Sunday, May 3, 2020
Gangster Squad (2013)
Synopsis
It's 1949 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. Everyone except Sergeant John
O'Mara, a former World War II soldier, whose goal is to settle with his
family in a peaceful Los Angeles. 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.
