For all the people who loved The Untouchables and thought that old Al
Capone had to pay for the rest of his life rotting in prison because of
that tax evasion thing, there's a neglected part of history that many
would be both surprised and then let-down about... being that Capone
actually got out and lived about a decade, and with money to boot... The
footnote of that is that he suffered from dementia and wasn't all
there, which was actually only the last couple years after the first
couple years after lockup...
Most are praising Tom Hardy's
performance because it's hard not to praise Tom Hardy, but he's all
makeup and imitation here, nothing else, really... Matt Dillon plays his
former mentor Johnny and seems in even more of a cruise control mode
than Hardy's Capone, who at least has a reason being he's so messed up
mentally... But nothing much happens except for showing a guy
getting what he deserved after he got what he deserved by the far more
entertaining story of his peak as a gangster... one scene as he lies in
bed, he... well let's just say the audience gets to actually watch brown
stuff spraying from his rear-end and it's not supposed to be hilarious
but it seems like something out of Neighbors or Old School, and, anyhow,
Josh Trask, poor fella, he just can't catch a break... The "It Guy
Director" in Hollywood had a chance here, after failing at the top, to
prove himself with arthouse but... there's simply nobody home here, and
the lights aren't even on.
FONZO (2020)
Title: CAPONE Year: 2020 Rates: *
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