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Capone's Boys

2002, Movie, R, 100 mins

Capone's Boys: Review

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A Roaring-Twenties action picture that doesn't exactly revitalize the period gangster genre. In 1927, three young Englishmen — Jimmy (Marc Warren), Eddy (Stephen Lord) and Dan (Ralph Little) — leave behind continental poverty, labor at shipboard drudgery to pay for passage to America and then embark on careers as small-time crooks. Jimmy catches the eye of Georgino (Al Sapienza); a lieutenant for Al Capone (Julian Littman); Georgino's eye for pugilistic talent gives Jimmy a step up the underworld ladder as a boxer. Jimmy can't resist bedding Georgino's moll, Edith (Kirsty Mitchell), even though he knows aggravating Capone's main man isn't a smart move. The less-talented Eddy and Dan must do menial jobs for second-string Capone associate Mr. Birch (Ron Donachie), but when they realize the furniture they regularly deliver to a butcher contains corpses, Eddy and Dan get cold feet about their fledgling career in crime. Their escape from Chicago could be expedited with the loot Mr. Birch keeps locked up in a factory safe, and the heat is turned up after Al Capone Jr. is kidnapped on his way to school on Eddy and Dan's watch. Capone Sr. naturally wonders whether the Limeys masterminded an inside job. Eddy and Dan rifle Birch's safe for their getaway fund, as Jimmy — who knows there's only one way to clear his friends — starts digging for the real kidnapper's identity. With Edith's cooperation, Jimmy searches for Capone's young son and hopes to convince Capone Sr. that Eddy and Dan are blameless. Will the violent-tempered Capone listen to reason before he learns their adventures in safecracking? This is one of those ersatz historical dramas in which the cast seem uncomfortable with their dress-up assignments, and the director doesn't appear well versed in the time period. But the production's greatest liability is the highly uneven acting: Warren and Sapienza spar nicely, but leading lady Mitchell is appalling. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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