![]() ![]() The sprawling gangster story was given more than enough budget to pull it off, and even landed a release date that typically coincides with awards attention. The cast is talented from top to bottom, including Oscar winners and charismatic actresses to play opposite Affleck. Not only is director Ben Affleck coming off a Best Picture Oscar for his last directorial effort, “ Argo,” but he started his already-impressive directorial career with an adaptation of a novel by the same author of the source material, Dennis Lehane, who not only penned “ Gone Baby Gone” but “ Mystic River,” “ Shutter Island,” and others. On paper, it seems like a can’t-fail proposition. The script was clearly a mess when someone bought it, it was never going to be profitable, and no one involved had the skill to pull it off. Some mediocre movies just don’t make sense you can never understand why they went into production in the first place. ![]()
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