After seeing a few trailers for this, I was quite look forward to watching it. I like old-school gangster films, and Ben Affleck is on something of a roll at the moment, so I was optimistic.
The story follows the fortunes of Joe Coughlin (played by Ben Affleck) who becomes embroiled in the criminal underworld. It goes through the typical rise to power and betrayal themes of these kinds of films, which while it has been done before, was still entertaining to watch.
Ben Affleck does a good job, as do Sienna Miller, Robert Glenister, Remo Girone, and Zoe Saldana. Mention should also go to Chris Cooper who played Chief Figgis. His character's interactions with Joe Coughlin and the way their relationship changed as the film progressed were a highlight (can't go into details for spoiler reasons).
The action scenes were fantastic. I really like the old style cars and guns (who doesn't like Tommy Guns?), and these scenes really delivered. If you like gangster films, you'll probably enjoy this, I know I did.
(Originally published on my blog, whingewood.wordpress.com)
The story follows the fortunes of Joe Coughlin (played by Ben Affleck) who becomes embroiled in the criminal underworld. It goes through the typical rise to power and betrayal themes of these kinds of films, which while it has been done before, was still entertaining to watch.
Ben Affleck does a good job, as do Sienna Miller, Robert Glenister, Remo Girone, and Zoe Saldana. Mention should also go to Chris Cooper who played Chief Figgis. His character's interactions with Joe Coughlin and the way their relationship changed as the film progressed were a highlight (can't go into details for spoiler reasons).
The action scenes were fantastic. I really like the old style cars and guns (who doesn't like Tommy Guns?), and these scenes really delivered. If you like gangster films, you'll probably enjoy this, I know I did.
(Originally published on my blog, whingewood.wordpress.com)
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