So this movie depicts the life that the once Main Man, The Don, The Gangster, Scarface, Alphonse Gabriel Capone leads follows being released from an 11 year stay at a United States Penitentiary.
Al Capone or Fonz (played by Tom Hardy), has left prison, after being caught for tax evasion. He is now in his mid 40's and has been released from prison, as the authorities now do not deem him as a threat. Capone has now moved away from the hustle bustle of Chicago for one of the homes that he had while he was the most feared gangsters of his time. The problem for Capone is that he is suffering from untreated neurosyphilis and also has entered stages of dementia. So he is now only a shadow of that feared mobster prior to the prison sentence. Now retired and living with his wife Mae (played by Linda Cardellini) and son Junior (played by Noel Fisher) in their Florida home, Capone has lost all of those allies and friends he had when things were "good". He has a few bodyguard's and family members and close friends that are within reach. With the way that his illnesses are attacking his body, we see Fonz, going downhill, his bodily functions are failing him as he has the occasional bladder or bowel malfunction. Mae cares for him as much as she can with the help of some of the family and friends that are left. He has become very paranoid of people watching him, while smoking his cigars and sitting in the chair in the house or outside in the garden looking across his garden full of his beloved statues he thinks he sees people. Does he?Or is it the illnees? Its not paranoia though, as the FBI, since his release have a theory that Fonz has hidden some of the money he had $10 million to be precise, so they have teams of officers all around the property, in vans with listening devices picking up conversations in the bugged house, in case that Fonz tells someone where the money is. Fonz's mind does start to play tricks on him as we see him being tortured by his past experiences and being very confused. Matt Dillon plays the part of Johnny and Kyle MacLachlan plays the part of Doctor Karlock.
It was a very different story to any other that i had seen depicted in a movie of TV show before. The one i know and many too will agree, is a strong mobster leader that everyone respected and adhered to his rules. To see Tom Hardy play this part of Al Capone's life was an eyeopener. I do not think that many other actors would have been able to give the amazing performance that Tom did. He seems to have a knack of finding just the smallest little things within a role and transforms, almost morphs into that person. We have seen this from him on many of occasions as he has been Bane, Bronson, Mad Max, Venom and Alfie Solomans There are some darkly humourous parts in this movie as well as the sadness and a small amount of insight to how people who suffer from this illness must feel. I really did like the movie and found it very enlightening, i have seen that the ratings aren't very high, well it won't be to everyone's taste, give it a watch and make up your own mind.
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