Tom Hardy really dodged a bullet with this one. The actor’s new biopic “Capone” skipped its theatrical release due to the coronavirus pandemic and, as a result, few people seem to know it exists.
Lucky for Hardy, because he makes the worst Al Capone ever. For those of you who thought Al Pacino yukked it up too much as Jimmy Hoffa in “The Irishman,” get ready for this ham dinner.
To play the Prohibition-era mob legend, Hardy is made up to look like one of the guys whose flesh melts off in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” An exhumed corpse who talks too much, he snarls from the throat as though he’s about to hurl and, as is typical of this actor, you can’t understand a single word he says.