Great directing, Awful Score

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2008)

I have to say, for the longest time i felt that this film was greatly underrated but these days I'm not so sure anymore. I mean don't get me wrong, I love De Niro, and he had the look and i suppose the attitude, but to me he didn't do the part of Al Capone any justice.
I loved the directing of the move; definitely one of Brian DePalma's best. But the one thing that really really bothered me about this film was its musical score. The whole thing wasn't too bad, but at times, such as the opening credits and most of the sequences with De Niro on screen, the score had great musical themes, but was way to modernized and didn't fit the atmosphere at all. It had a hint of 80s, heavily reverbed drum beats that were entirely not necessary. Also, the use of some of the music in a few parts of the movie made the scenes seem a lot cheesier than they needed to be, and i had to sympathize with the actors that their abilities were diminished by the score.
And one other thing that i would find negative about the film is that a death in the movie was played out very poorly and dragged on to an unrealistic amount of time for the damages done.
But all minor complaints aside, the movie is very enjoyable and is definitely worth a watch. It has one of my favorite scenes of all time and probably one of the more famous scenes to ever hit the screen. But I won't spoil that for you.
Hope you enjoy it!