a5c7b9f00b 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. Boston, 1926. The &#39;20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city&#39;s most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa&#39;s Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force of betrayal and redemption, music and murder, that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue. Ben Affleck Directs and stars this adaptation from the book by Dennis Lehane &quot;Live By night&quot; Ben Affleck did the best he can to adapt a very long book to a 2 hours run time. in this film you can see the love for the old gangster films from the 30 or 40 like &quot;The Public Enemy&quot; Live By night is very entertaining thinks this gangsters films always do. the guy is with the boss girl, treason and more. Ben Affleck did a great job with a long book compressed into 2 hours and make sense everything. the cinematography is great. the costume design amazing. the direction beautiful. the action sequence are amazing<br/><br/>negatives: the film sometimes stops a little bit. to put unnecessary long love scenes. sometimes is a little boring but than an action sequence comes out and the film rises. Offcourse I went to see &#39;Live by Night&#39; with high expectations. As I like these probation era gangster flicks and Ben Affleck has proved himself solid director. I didn&#39;t pay much attention to the earlier reviews (like I usually do, before seeing the film) and trailer looked promising. &#39;Live by Night&#39; had everything to be great period piece, but it all fell flat. The pacing was slow and the tone was unbalanced (like Ben Affleck&#39;s performance). The cinematography was fantastic, and set pieces looked beautiful. Actually too beautiful, everything looked like brand new, the film could have used little more grittiness and tiredness to look more authentic for the period. Ben Affleck has never been the greatest actor alive, but here his performance was too unfocused, even the rich supporting cast with many great character actors all looked bored. The film was so uninspiring that I can&#39;t even say much more. To me it was the most disappointing film experience over long period of time. There’s a lot of cinema to admire here. And being reminded of the directorial talents of Affleck—undeniably a more accomplished filmmaker than an actor—is no minor event.
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