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If you're a fan of mob movies, this will be a heavy disappointment. The storyline isnt that engaging as much as the actors try to do their best to imitate the gangsters of the 20s/30s

Unless you already know the main characters making up the various Chicago mobs of the 1920's and 30's you will most likely not understand this movie. It is mostly a collection of well-known incidents (the St. Valentines Day Massacre for example) and extreme violence along with standard "mobster meets dance joint showgirl" interludes.

Because the entire story of the Chicago mobs are not explored in greater detail and the actors don't look much like their real life counterparts it is often difficult to follow the action when one gang is attempting to waylay the other(s). Even the 1950's TV program "The Untouchables" offered a lead-in before each episode that explained a bit about the history. This movie just begins cold.

I gave the movie a 3 for the photography, sets and costumes but the storytelling leaves a lot to be desired. Anyone who knows the actual history of gangs in Chicago will wonder why they made this movie.

This is probably the worst acted and directed piece of **** that I have ever seen. Like a bad high school play.

The fact that the movie promotes Jack McGurn as Capone's second in command tells you all you need to know about the authenticity of this movie. Another movie in which everyone in the world is young and good looking and they all date really pretty women. Oy. Take a look at Capones wife, in reality she was more along the lines of Roseanne. But you got lots of gun play and the costumes are nice so if thats enough for you, you got that.

Useless. super boring. i was 0 invested in anything. couldn't get thru it, even on fast speed (1 viewing)

I have seen some shocking movies over the years but this one really takes the cake. Some fairly talented actors have blotted their careers with this pile of faecal matter. The writer should be black listed and the director fitted with concrete slippers and taken on a one way fishing trip.

This film is awesome, if you have played Godfather The Game this film essentially allows you to play it out in real life. Great acting, great storyline and very enjoyable watch one of my favourite films.

Daddy!? can I have some money? me and my friends are gonna make a movie.. sure Milo be home by supper..

If you'll watch all the movies in the world less than this so, read a book.

It's very low quality movie, the dialogues appear that are take from some playstation videogame, embarassing.

Since others have adequately furnished accurate reviews of this movie's many shortcomings, I'll only add that there's a very GOOD reason I found my Blu-Ray disc selling for one ONE DOLLAR in a discount store. It's already been donated to charity.

I really wanted to like this film seeing as I've read just about every book about Capone and the Chicago Outfit ever written. Unfortunately I was severely disappointed. The film is loaded with historical inaccuracies, such as calling Northside gang leader Dean O'Banion "Dion", using modern currency instead of the old style large bills and numerous other anachronisms. The script was apparently written by a high school student and the acting is uniformly bad. If you aren't familiar with the 1920s Chicago gangster milieu, you'll probably be confused about just what's going on in this picture. All in all, my advice is to not waste your time watching this. Some old "Untouchables" episodes are far more entertaining and more historically accurate.

If you wanna do a gangster theme movie with your own characters and events, just do it. But to take a historical figure and rewrite him, makes your film fail where it could have at least been respected for the art. Jack McGurn was a cold-blooded killer with no scruples, retaliating against the men who killed his stepfather, and gaining the attention of Al Capone with his brutality of murdering them. I'm this film, McGurn is presented as a man torn with Capone's brutality, not becoming a killer until Al shows him how. A big miss because of this, and just another gangster film that tries to show shady murderers as anti-heroes to chill for.

The film is done well enough and the story is compelling. The setups are often theatre and the play as well. It is however a good rendering that is probably more accurate than the hollywood threatment so far.

Where I found myself very entertained by this movie and the excellent performances within it (especially by the lead and the guy playing Al Capone), there are MAJOR flaws in this movie. The biggest of these is the pacing. Major time jumps happen constantly. This film could've benefited from a two-hour runtime. Seriously.

Overall, I really enjoyed it. I think this director tried his best, and actually accomplished some awesome work, here. But it needs some re-editing hahah.

I'm not sure why this movie got poor reviews, it was entertaining, enjoyable to watch, some action, and a decent story. No it's not the godfather or goodfellas, but lets be honest what is? Those classic mob movies just don't seem to be reproducible / being made so if you're a fan of mafia movies its a good watch.