A 10 For Film Making, 1-2 For Accuracy

Rating: 6/10 (6 January 2020)

This is a beautifully filmed movie. The shots and camera work are just so great. The cinematography and film making are also great. I would give all that a 10. Film wise, its a wonderful film.
But this is a true story, told in a completely inaccurate way. To me it defeats the purpose. Maybe with ancient legends you can take a lot of liberties. But this is the retelling of recent history. And they are doing so much wrong in retelling it. So many of the details are false...there may very well be more falsehoods than truth in the movie. And we are talking about some very big things too. For instance two of the officers who are working together in the film never actually met! And the worst part is that they have the main character kill a man in the movie who he didn't kill in real life, but instead went on to replace al capone as head of his family and then eventually died of natural causes. Where they hell do they get off doing that? What they should have done, if they had the integrity, would be to say that that is what happened after al died at the end of the film. After they say how long al served in jail and how he died...but they don't do any of that! The movie ends with al going to jail, not knowing what happened after that. A very poor ending.
So I give this movie a 1-2 for accuracy. Altogether I give it a 6. Worth watching only if you watch it alongside a documentary on al capone so you know whats what.