Tom Hardy in ‘Capone’: Film Review
Playing the infamous Al Capone in his ailing last days, Tom Hardy gives a mumbly Method showboat performance that's authentic on the surface, but there isn't enough beneath the mob mannerisms. By Owen Gleiberman In “Capone,” Tom Hardy, as the aging, broken-down, not-all-there Al Capone, acts under a corpse-gray mask of desiccated-mobster makeup, and he speaks in a bullfrog croak so raspy it sounds like he's only got one or two vocal cords left, and that they've been burnt to a crisp. It's 1946, and Capone's days as the legendary underworld kingpin of Chicago are long gone; so are the eleven...
