4.9 | / 10 |
Users | 2.5 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia, and comes to be haunted by his violent past.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Linda Cardellini, Matt Dillon, Kyle MacLachlan, Noel FisherBiography | 100% |
Crime | 90% |
Drama | 5% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: LPCM 2.0 (48kHz, 16-bit)
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 1.5 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 0.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
After scoring a commercial success with 2012’s “Chronicle,” director Josh Trank lost almost all of his critical and industry goodwill with his follow-up endeavor, the disastrous “Fantastic Four” do-over. While such a public flameout would kill most careers, Trank has managed to hang on to his employability by his fingertips, returning five years later with “Capone,” a much smaller picture for the helmer. While there was a lot of speculation as to who was really behind the colossal failure of “Fantastic Four,” “Capone” basically underlines Trank’s shortcomings as a storyteller, getting lost in his own unpleasant whims with the feature, which gradually becomes a prison sentence for viewers as it tracks the steady decay of Al Capone -- a tale nobody asked for, especially from Trank.
The AVC encoded image (2.39:1 aspect ratio) presentation does well with detail, providing a textured look at Hardy's makeup work, looking at ravaged skin and wounds. Sharpness is so strong at times, it's easy to spot the edges of Hardy's eye contacts. Interior decoration is crisp, exploring rooms in Capone's mansion, and exteriors provide ideal dimension. Colors are distinct, securing the bloodless pallor on the main character, while livelier period hues surround him. Greenery is precise. Delineation is satisfactory. The real issue here is artifacting, with numerous scenes diminished by banding and mild blockiness, which carries throughout the viewing experience.
The 5.1 DTS-HD MA sound mix offers an immersive understanding of atmospheric changes, with heavy weather exploring the surrounds, and genre elements, including mansion activity and swarming bugs, utilize separation effects, adding to the feature's sense of agitation. Dialogue exchanges are precise, offering as much clarity as possible to Hardy's grunted performance. Sound effects are heavier, offering weight to tommy gun sprays, and music cues are equally full, detailed with sharp instrumentation.
There is no supplementary material on this release.
"Capone" struggles to find things to do, reveling in stretches of delirium and the puddling of bodily fluids. Trank gives the effort over to Hardy, who's never been one to turn down a chance to chew the scenery, going buck wild as the cigar-chomping, bilingual mumbling, decaying monster, chasing every acting tic he can think of. There's little discipline outside of the supporting cast (Cardellini deserves credit for trying to humanize Mae), and Trank has no sense of dramatic flow, with periodic stops to care for the feeble story (which includes a vague sense of Al's regret, emerging in the form of an illegitimate son trying to contact him) before it heads back to manic episodes. "Capone" is immediately exhausting and ultimately unrewarding, reaching nowhere of interest. And those hoping for a gritty Al Capone study are left with a better appreciation for the diapers he wore than the man he was.
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