Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past.
Capone (2020) takes an unusual angle on the Al Capone story by focusing on his deteriorating final years rather than his rise to power, which gives it some novelty. Tom Hardy's committed, eccentric performance is the film's main draw, though it polarized audiences. The plot meanders significantly, struggling to build coherent narrative momentum around a protagonist whose dementia makes conventional storytelling difficult. The cinematography is competent and occasionally atmospheric but unremarkable. The ending fizzles rather than lands with impact, leaving viewers without satisfying resolution or emotional payoff. The film earns modest marks for attempting something different with the biopic format but falls short in execution.