playing the infamous Al Capone in his ailing last days, Tom Hardy gives a mumbly Method showboat performance that's authentic on the surface, but there isn't enough beneath the mob mannerisms
Josh Trank is back with this gloomy, distinctively grandiose but very confident study of a gangster legend; Tom Hardy is an entertainingly feral and angry Capone; It's an interesting film
Josh Trank invests so much in atmosphere and in chronicling Capone's decline that the storyline -- riddled with flashbacks and half-hallucinations -- becomes a sort of surreal afterthought, a strange patchwork of bathos and brutality
"Capone" is definitely an unconventional take on the twilight of a notorious gangster. Alas, it's not an interesting one, although the borderline self-parodying Method madness of Tom Hardy's performance does kind of demand to be seen
"Capone" is an angry, violent and despairing film; Watching this frequently grotesque and narratively meandering movie is a somewhat nightmarish experience, and thereby it successfully evokes Capone's tortured existence
"Capone" has lofty ambitions of being the next great crime drama, but falls short of finding a compelling story about its subject's final days.. this messy film doesn't have much to offer
by Katie Walsh [The Guardian ]
by Katie Walsh [Tribune News Service ]
