Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling's ‘underrated' thriller now streaming
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's forgotten team-up from 2013 has just been added to Prime Video.
The A-list Hollywood duo are best known for portraying love interests in the romantic-comedy Crazy Stupid Love and the Oscar-winning musical La La Land.
However, they co-starred together in between these two hits in a wildly different film that's been all but forgotten.
Helmed by Venom and Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, Gangster Squad received middling reviews when it was first released and was not a huge hit amongst movie buffs.
Gosling stars as Sergeant Jerry Wooters, a WWII veteran tasked with bringing down Los Angeles mob leader Mickey Cohen (played by Sean Penn), along with fellow cop Sergeant John O'Mara (Josh Brolin).
Stone features in the film as Grace Faraday, an etiquette teacher close to Cohen who eventually falls for Jerry in this glossy send-up of hard-boiled noir thrillers.
While Gangster Squad didn't capture audiences' imaginations as much as their other two collaborations, Gosling and Stone fans should definitely take this opportunity to give it another go now it's on Prime Video.
Plenty of fans have reassessed the film as an underrated gem, with a Letterboxd reviewer saying: 'Definitely underrated as a movie and I definitely didn't expect it to get such bad reviews on several famous platforms...
'Although its script and plot were nothing out of the ordinary and original the film's vibes and noir genre were definitely what I loved about it!'
Another wrote: 'This one smashed it out of the park for me. I had low expectations going in but came out very pleasantly surprised and to be honest, pretty damn impressed.
'Great cast, superb production design, fantastic shootouts and overall, really well made and hugely enjoyable. I loved it.'
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And someone else asked: 'What did this movie ever do to you guys to receive all bad ratings?'
The film received a similar appraisal from a recent Reddit post, as a moviegoer argued: 'Gangster Squad (2013) is actually pretty good.
'This one really surprised me... And just to clarify right off of the bat, I'm not saying I think it deserved any Oscars or anything, but it's way more fun than I was expecting the gangster-movie from the director of Zombieland, Venom, and Uncharted to be... (man, Ruben Fleischer has an odd filmography.)'
There are also scores of five-star Google reviews for the film, including one calling it 'CRIMINALLY UNDERATED'.
'This is the modern day untouchables,' it continued. '1940s LA is such a beautiful setting. The writing for the characters is great.
'A true sense of brotherhood. Sean Penn portrays a terrifying Mickey Cohen. The action is top notch.'
Don't let Gangster Squad fall off your radar if you've not yet checked out Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling's most misunderstood cinematic team-up.
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