Al Capone lived out his final years on a grand
estate in Palm Island, Florida, with his wife, Mae,
by his side and grandchildren running around
the property. It sounds like a pretty nice end for
the notorious Chicago gangster, until you realize
that he spent those post Alcatraz years suffering
from declining health, dementia and the long-
term effects of a syphilis infection from when he
was just a teenager that went untreated. Also?
He was likely broke. Then he died of a heart
attack on January 25, 1947. He was only 48.
It’s this chapter that gets the focus in “Capone,”
a hallucinatory and messy (in all respects) film
starring Tom Hardy as the once great crime
boss who is now hardly recognizable to himself
or his family and in a state of rapid decline.