Joe was once a good man.
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Renoon TMDB · Sep 20176/10
**Fall and rise, a revenge tale.** Number four for the director Affleck after his other film won the Oscars four years ago. He has also written the screenplay and produced it. It was based on the book of the same name. The story of a World War I veteran turned notorious gangster. Escaping from the war, falling in love with a gangster's woman, a bank heist, prison time, the son of a police officer and his journey to the top of the criminal world after losing everything at one stage of his life. More like a revenge film, but the intention was not aggressive. Only the time and the life passage give one to him. From all his directional films, probably this could be the worst one. It had everything a gangster film needed like gun fights, car chase, revenge, romance, yet I felt lacked depth in its overall theme. Actors were not bad, the settings looked fine. The length of the film was a bit long, but the film offered nothing new. It looked like someone's biography or made it look like one. I think that's the point. Even the end part of the film extends, only to annoy us after two long hours patiently sat for it. The best part of the film, what I liked was the 1920s. The story about betwe
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Cast
- Ben AffleckJoe Coughlin
- Elle FanningLoretta Figgis
- Remo GironeMaso Pescatore
- Brendan GleesonThomas Coughlin
- Robert GlenisterAlbert White
- Matthew MaherRD Pruitt
- Chris MessinaDion Bartolo
- Sienna MillerEmma Gould
- MiguelEsteban Suarez
- Zoe SaldañaGraciella Suarez
Crew
- Ben AffleckDirector
- Ben AffleckScreenplay
- Dennis LehaneNovel
- Robert RichardsonDirector of Photography
- Harry Gregson-WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
- William GoldenbergEditor
- Ben AffleckProducer
- Jennifer ToddProducer
- Leonardo DiCaprioProducer
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