Capone

 

Capone is a biographical drama detailing the last year of Al Capone’s life starring Tom Hardy, Linda Cardellini and Matt Dillon.

Cardellini and Hardy had great chemistry. She as the devoted wife and he as the aging and dying former gangster. Hardy’s transformation as Capone was fantastic. His acting, mannerisms and voice, accompanied by the really well done hair, makeup and costumes, helped to solidify his standing as a leading man. His performance was so good, all I saw was Capone.

The script was a bit odd, it was marketed as a true story but there were definitely parts that the writer and director, Josh Trank, took the liberty to exaggerate or falsify for entertainment purposes. There were parts were you couldn’t tell if what the audience was seeing was real, a hallucination or a memory. There were scenes toward the end that almost felt like a parody, which was unfortunate because I don’t think the goal was for any of it to be particularly funny.

Even though Hardy put on a masterful performance, this movie wasn’t that great. Minus a couple of scenes, it was slow moving and lackluster.