LIVE BY NIGHT 2016
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Ben Affleck
This film is based on Dennis Lehane's novel.
Ben Affleck plays Joe Coughlin, a self-professed bandit, son of a senior police officer played by Brendan Gleeson. Joe gets into trouble with the Irish as well as the Italians, falls for a boss's hussy, botches up a bank robbery in which cops get killed, does jail time and returns from the dead to work for the Italian boss.
He is sent to Florida to manage rum business which he does with ruthlessness. His plans to build a casino are put paid by evangelists. He runs into KKK and kills their operatives. Then he falls in love with Zoe Saldana and finishes off his enemies before walking into sunset.
Ben Affleck is earnest, but too plain for such roles that Al Pacino and Bobby have done with panache. I don't know why the bombed, it is a decent effort, all said.
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