It only takes a few gangster films to feel like you have seen too many. Why? Because they all seem to be about Chicago covering the exact same story and the exact same people. This is another Al Capone movie. There are over 20 feature films portraying Capote, a dozen tv series and tv movies. It gets a little boring.This movie loses a point just for lacking originality. At least they got a good actor for Capone (Robert De Niro), problem is they really don't use him enough. The movie is less about him and more about Eliot Ness, the investigator trying to bring him down. Kevin Costner was just not right for this role. He is weak in his performance and overshadowed and pushed over by Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, and Sean Connery. Garcia was FANTASTIC in his minor role. Good enough that I looked him up because he was so familiar, that is when I remembered he was nominated for an Oscar 3 years later for his role as Vincent in The Godfather: Part III.
The soundtrack for this film is ear piercingly bad. It is very very 80s. At over two and a half hours this was a time investment not worth making. I actually watched this in two parts. The first of about one and a half was pretty good, I was thinking 6 or 7 at that point. The slow motion scenes were so incredibly bad that this movie just sank in the last hour. It was even comical at times. Costner approaching De Niro at the end was just awful acting and scripting.
Let's just say a 5 is generous because the film had some merit. I can see why it fell out of the imdb top 250 several years ago.
Vote: 5/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094226/
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