After starting life as a project that Warner Bros. was very gung-ho to make, and quickly roping in a cast that includes
Josh Brolin,
Ryan Gosling, and
Sean Penn,
Ruben Fleischer's film
Gangster Squad is in a difficult position. The movie tells a fictionalized account of LA cops attempting to stop the incursion of organized crime into Los Angeles during the 1940s. Part of the climax of the film features a scene in which mobsters fire ...