Review of Live by Night (2016) by Ken S — 26 Mar 2017

Ben Affleck's latest film from the Director's chair is, for the most part, a solid gangster film. The problem is that it is a bit bloated and definitely too long. I can easily see where the fat that needed trimmed was.

..the dead girlfriend turning out to be alive was such a predictable and boring twist, and the end result of that reveal is so boring and unsatisfying, that it just made me wonder why she just couldn't stay dead (even though I knew she was alive the whole time since it was such an obvious faked off screen death).

And then it just kept having endings...the big blowout...then the reunion with the wife, then the dead girlfriend scene, and then we get a tiny epilogue and then he is shot at again, and then....it just become a chore to finish the film, and I was enjoying it well enough before then.

Brought the whole experience down for me.