Playing the infamous Al Capone in his ailing last days, Tom Hardy gives a mumbly Method showboat performance that's authentic on the surface, but there isn't enough beneath the mob mannerisms.
By Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Capone,” Tom Hardy, as the aging, broken-down, not-all-there Al Capone, acts under a corpse-gray mask of desiccated-mobster makeup, and he speaks in a bullfrog croak so raspy it sounds like he’s only got one or two vocal cords left, and that they’ve been burnt to a crisp.
It’s 1946, and Capone’s days as the legendary underworld kingpin of Chicago are long gone; so are the 11 years he spent in prison for tax evasion.
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