17 Years Later, Johnny Depp’s Overlooked Action Crime Thriller Is Officially Free on YouTube

Hollywood has spent decades returning to the Prohibition and Great Depression eras, a time period when gangsters became folk heroes, law enforcement reinvented itself, and the American underworld was undergoing a violent transformation. We’ve seen Brian De Palma capture the larger-than-life pursuit of Al Capone in The Untouchables , while Sam Mendes explored the tragic weight of family ties in Road to Perdition . John Lee Hancock flipped the script to highlight the gritty lawmen hunting Bonnie and Clyde in The Highwaymen .