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I love gangster movies and I am a big fan of Tom Hardy, ok? So I had every reason in the universe to anticipate this movie. Aaand as you can see from my rating I didn't like it. Main reason? It was boring! It was aimless and boring!

I 'm only writing this review to praise Tom Hardy who (as per usual) gave his 100% and disappeared in the role of Capone. He's the brightest star in a pile of... well, you get it.

Check this movie for his performance if you have patience. If not... I don't know... go watch Boardwalk Empire? \_(0.0)_/

Beautifully shot movie. That's the only plus. Wasted cast. Terrible script. Incoherent and slow as all hell.

Al Capone (Tom Hardy) is released after a decade in prison due to his poor health from late stage syphilis. He is hounded by hallucinations and lives with his family in Florida. He believes that he had hidden $10 million but can't remember where.

This is an idea more than a movie. There really isn't much of a point other than a fleeting treasure hunt and Tom Hardy doing his Oscar reel. It would be interesting to do a movie about his wife. If it wants to be the treasure hunt, it should start with the government agents and their reason for releasing the man. There is a son. There is the family. It's a lot things and nothing well examined. This is not a good rebound film for Josh Trank. The filmmaking looks good but the story goes down too many dead ends. It introduces characters but don't expand on them. It hints at a deeper story but ends up with a muddle.

... from 'Happy Days' spirals into syphilitic insanity and reincarnates as a zombie wearing a nappy (or diaper).

A film with very little value other than to remind us to eat our carrots and avoid crocodiles.

This could be a very interesting project, exploring the living conditions of one of the biggest Italian mafia bosses in America in his last year of life. There are a few interesting shots and the director managed to decently represent the confusion and the slow but inevitable decline of Capone's sanity, to the point where the audience cannot really distinguish what is real and what he is just imagining. The pace of the movie is way too slow. There are a few characters and narrative arcs that are never properly explained. Some scenes were just pointless. It takes too much time to finally see a development and by the time the plot is getting engaging, end credits roll, leaving me with more questions than answers. "Capone" has its good moments and the cinematography is beautiful, but the plot was poorly written and the project had a lack of direction. In my opinion Josh Trank did not really know what he wanted to tell, because the different elements of the story do not fit that well together.

I consider Tom Hardy one of my favorite modern actors, he is very talented and he proved himself several times to be absolutely worthy of his fame. In this case he was just annoying and I could barely watch him. I did not like his portrayal of Capone. I am pretty sure that if he was not involved in this project, nobody would even know about the existence of this film. Linda Cardellini in the past had several beautiful roles, but in recent years is participating in mediocre productions. She did not impress me and I found her acting pretty sloppy. Maybe it is time to pick better scripts. If you are big Tom Hardy fans, try to watch it, otherwise it is pointless to go through this mess.

Wildly inconsistent performance from Tom Hardy that ultimately disappoints. Blah subject matter. Surprisingly excellent performance from Matt Dillon, and other supporting cast.

Frankly, performances of Tom Hardy in the past few years have been off kilter and unfathomable.

Overall the movie is ok, but a good chance you'll fall asleep part way through.

CAPONE , Tom Hardy plays Capone in his twilight years, after serving ten years in prison for tax evasion. Capone is in retirement in Florida. He has dementia from "neurosyphilis" "so most of the film he stutters between sense and insanity. The scene when he walks around wearing his diapers shooting a gold machine gun needs to be seen. Not a good film and a giant poo in the pants 4/10.

Even when criticising the film, people still praise Tom Hardy. Why? Possibly the most overrated actor around. Very strange he was chosen for the part. The script is dire and the direction flaccid. I enjoyed Matt Dillon's performance but the cast are really let down by poorly written dialogue. The film lacks pace and seems disjointed but Hardy is awful. Playing someone with dementia and other health issues is a tough ask for any actor but Hardy is just not up to it.

Tom Hardy drools, defecates, and dawdles his way through "Capone", though never convinces us he is indeed the O.G. Scarface, nor that he is someone for whom it would be worth putting up with this disgusting display for an entire movie.

The approach should have been obvious: show Capone in his last, pathetic days, and provide us flashbacks that bring us up to speed with the important events in his life that we may not be familiar with.

The filmmaker is less interested in this approach than he is in unleashing his inner David Lynch. Rarely have dream sequences been less appropriate, or less interesting to the subject matter than they are here.

This could have worked in small doses, but instead it is just tiresome and indulgent.

Al capone used to be an institution and a brandname for the free and selfentrepeneuring sole of the socalled underworld usa. and after viewing this , ill rather keep his memory from written books and other productions because this is just a bad reminiscence of a cruel but also a genious in the criminal trade. do not watch this for the historical update you might want, and as a film towards the topic of dementia. because its a grand misere.

its a biographical epos upon al capones last year, a broken man economically and physical and mental breakdown due to neurosyphilis, a disease contracted in the haydays of his life. it is for sure not an autobiographical flick, nor is it not a historically correct one either. its has some pieces of true demential moments that can easily be observed if your working with this kind of patients. there are the typical cognitive losses, the hallucinative sessions, wher one hears and see things that is not the, the angry outbursts without no reason, the sudden flashbacks of memories etc. there are a lot of anxiousness and suspicion against all and everyone.

what i feel though is that this story aint the real story, its just humbug written by a director that wish to make a milestone on a name in history that is just as notorious as evil roman emperors, or hitler or stalin. but its not even hitting the target at all. tom hardy tries and fullfilles the role pretty good, but the rest of the cast is a mess of outranged and desolate actors just filling in for a dime. what i will remember best from this saga is the big cigar chunked in his mouth that eventually is replaced by a carrot for helth reasons, and the grumpy growls mr hardy has specialized on through his film carriere

so with a grumpy groan i will say weve been scamed and frauded of historical facts , and if you do want to view this, put your caleidoscopic binoculars close to the eyes and think for yourself. the grumpy old man will not recommend it unless your a tom hardy nerd, or like me fascinated by the mobsters of the liquerless pimping 1920&1930's U S of A

After the disaster that was Fantastic Four, I wanted Josh Trank to make a comeback to prove his worth but sadly Capone didn't work for me.

Capone follows Al Capone during his final days where he's dealing with dementia and hallucinations of his violent past.

On paper this sounds like a very interesting idea. Taking one of the most notorious gangsters to ever exist and show him at the lowest point of his life has potential to turn into a very exciting film. However, Josh Trank's execution of this idea is very dull. For a film that's 1 hour 40 minutes long, not much happens. I found myself becoming very bored early on as Trank doesn't add much substance to make the film that engaging. I love Tom Hardy as an actor. Even if this film wasn't good, I felt I could've relied on Hardy at least to give a great performance but I'm very mixed on it. He tries very hard but I felt it was too over the top for me. He makes his way through the film mumbling his lines for the most part making it extremely difficult to understand what he's saying. Tom Hardy is known for mumbling in some of his other films but here it was too much.

The editing was done by Trank himself and is very bad. There are many scenes where it cuts from shot to shot at odd times. This may have been done on purpose to show Capone's deteriorating state but it didn't make me feel anything towards him which makes me question as to what Trank was trying to communicate with this film. The tone is inconsistent as there are moments of humour as well as dark and dramatic moments so I didn't know how to feel throughout the film. We also meet characters that are later found to be in Capone's imagination. We're introduced to one in particular in a scene without Capone so it's hard to know how far Capone's imagination stretches since characters are established in scenes where he's not present. There is also a subplot involving a large amount of money hidden by Capone but that ends up going nowhere by the end.

I really don't understand the point of the film. Apart from showing us the end of this man's life, I don't see the purpose behind it or why I should care for him. There is some good filmmaking involved which shows Josh Trank's skill but I was left very disappointed by the end result and wouldn't recommend it. If you want to see a fantastic depiction of dementia, I would highly recommend seeing The Father starring Anthony Hopkins.

Basically, Capones character looked and sounded like a zombie throughout the entire film. Tom did great in this if the character wasn't Capone. Kept expecting a monster to rip through his chest or start cannibalizing on someone.

It's a shame that I have to see talented actors, and a promising premise, be wasted in a messy, badly edited, over the top film. It doesn't make sense that 'Capone' is an experimental, psychological thriller when it should be a mafia movie.

To start with the pros, the supporting performances were pretty good (especially from Linda Cardellini), and I thought the cinematography was pretty impressive. The film shows that Trank has improved as a director, and I commend him for that. Despite all the positive elements, I thought the film was frustrating to watch. I don't understand the praise for Tom Hardy from critics and audiences, because I thought his performance was sooooooooooo over the top, but not even in a good way. Don't get me wrong, I think Hardy is a phenomenal actor and can give Oscar-worthy performances in god awful movies (like Venom.) But his portrayal of Al Capone fails to be captivating and tends to be obnoxious and cringe-worthy at times. It's either his fault or Josh Trank's, I don't know. The editing is some of the worst editing I've seen since Bohemian Rhapsody (which is far worse than this), there's so many cuts in one scene, and I wonder why they couldn't just capture it in one take. The score felt too electronic, which took me out of the 1930s era (or 40s, I don't know.)

If Trank ever plans on doing another biopic, I suggest he didn't do that, and that he should stick to experimental sci-fi thrillers in the future. I really wanted to like this film, but it just didn't work out the way I wanted it to.

4/10, What a shame.

I love Tom Hardy's work and "Capone" is no exception. He's doing the best with what he's been given, but even his performance can't save the lack of movement in the film. In short, it's boring. Linda Cardellini's performance as Mae is impressive, however.

Hard to watch. Hardy was good - story went no where and was pointless.

Despite Tom Hardy's faultless performance, this films ceases to be anything at all. It's not entertaining, insightful, thought provoking or even original. When will we learn that without a story and writing you can't have a great film. No matter how great the acting is.

We need to give more credit to screenwriters, rather than actors. Without the right screenwriter providing the screenplay the cast are just like a a chessboard with all the right pieces but no player. As is true here.

Trank directs this film as if the character is so interesting that the screenplay and story was an afterthought. Unfortunately that is not the case.

The film has brief moments of interest almost deceiving you into thinking the film might be going somewhere, only to find out the scene was a dream. The 'it was all just a dream scene' could be the most obvious trope of poor writing or a poor ending, and this film bravely uses it over and over again. Usually I support brave choices in films, but this sort of bravery is merely foolishness.

Many of the things happening here are historically incorrect. It seems as though the guy that wrote the story just wanted to stain Al Capone's reputation or humiliate his offspring. It is sad a great actor that is Tom Hardy got sucked into this. He went a step backwards in his career with this role.

Capone was film that had different type of storytelling compared to many others mobster films,it doesnt have a lot of action and we are rather focusing how character of Al Capone is suffering in his life either through his demantia and strokes or through haunting visions of staff he did in past,i would say that this film is worthy seeing just for Tom Hardy great performances and he once again completly dissapeared in a role,i loved the way how convincingly Tom showed the demantia can ruin peoples lifes very easily,his relationship with his wife was explored in a very small portion and rest of characters felt like didnt have a big reason to be in a film,expecely that mexican gardener,i also didnt liked how ending was put in and there were little to many dream sequances,Capone wasnt a film that will be remembered in a long view,i would compare it to Gotti but Capone at least had some good ideas ,and great actor in it

Very boring. I like Tom Hardy but I couldn't understand most of what he was saying. I also couldn't tell if what he was seeing was real half the time or just in his messed up mind. If you're looking for a good gangster film give this a miss.

First, do not get fooled about movie's title. Capone is not a gangsters movie. This movie is mostly about mental issues. Second, do not expect any kind of action, the movie is more a drama about someone's sick. Last, the problem here is that they used the name Capone to make a movie that nobody expected. Makeup does not help either. Capone was not a vampire. Anyway, just a weird movie about a serious topic that could have been a masterpiece just changing characters and setting or adding more action and less dramatic demential moments.

The only reason i stuck this out to the end was Tom Hardy...slow ..boring..not good.

If you are going to do a biopic on someone you may want to stick to the things that actually happened. No flow to this story.

Grotesque to the point of car crash fascination, it's still a slog to make it all the way through this. Hardy's mannered performance is spectacularly awful and the repulsive physical manifestations of his decline add to the overall discomfort of the experience. Like riding a nausea inducing rollercoaster, there's a feeling of exhilaration once you emerge from this challenging endurance test.