Avis des critiques

Trank’s Capone brings back classical moral examination.

It’s a tour de force of something — though not persuasive acting — and a distraction from any ambitions in this biopic from Josh Trank.

The star's Capone Voice is something else—right up there with Hardy's Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises" and the title character of "Bronson" and the murderous trapper in "The Revenant" in goofy daring, as well as raw material for celebrity impressions that one might attempt while buzzed at a party. No matter how many times you hear it, it never seems to issue organically from the man on the screen.

It’s an interesting film, which Trank tops off with a contrived finale of bizarre, spectacular (and contrived) violence, yet the woozy slipping-into-dementia-fantasy sequences, although striking, mean sometimes that the visual impact of what we are seeing is sometimes lessened, as we wait to see if it is really happening or not.

The casting of Hardy as Capone—or, rather, the direction of Hardy in the role—is unfortunately consistent with this overdetermined approach.

Trank doesn’t allow sequences to build off one another. Every scene is virtually self-contained, and so Capone feels as if it’s starting all over again from frame to frame.