Review of Capone (2020) by Bfoore90 — 14 Nov 2020

This film is supposed to be the big comeback vehicle for director Josh Trank, whose career seemingly went off the rails following Fan4stic. Which resulted in Trank losing his job as director of the planned Boba Fett film and putting his promising career on hold.

Capone does some things right, its nicely directed and acted but suffers from a muddled script and Tom Hardy's performance eats up most of the screen. Capone takes a good concept of taking a horrorific monster of a criminal in Al "Fonzo" Capone and looking at him at his absolute worst. He's loosing his grip on reality, his life and his bowls. The problem is it takes a good concept and instead of swinging for the fences, he swings for the moon. Tom Hardy is great here and actually all of the cast is good but all Hardy does in the film is mumble incoherently, stare intensely, crap his pants, hallucinate and walk around like he's carrying heavy bags.

The side characters are essentially there to deal with Capone loosing his mind and theres no real motivation to it. There is a plot point involving money that Capone hid away that never actually goes anywhere but other than that its a essentially a poor man's "Irishman." Its a bit of a disappointing film but I don't recommend not watching it and forming your own opinion of it.