His previous gangster movie "The Town" wasn't bad, so with experience already making a gangster flick, and this time in the 30s, I was very excited to watch Live by Night. Well, the only positive thing I can say are the beautiful set pieces. Everything else totally stunk. Its definitely no classic, and doesn't even come remotely close to The Town.
It seems like Ben is in love with himself, as he's in almost every scene, mumbling his lines. He gives Steven Seagal a run for his money for most soft spoken. Affleck is boring, the pace moves at the speed of a turtle, all the other actors only gets a few scenes and none of them are memorable. The love scenes lack passion and worst of all, the violence lacks excitement. It has the most dullest shootouts of any gangster movie I can recall. I couldn't wait for this movie to end.
I don't know what happened with Ben, as he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in it, but he didn't bring his A game, he brought his P (pathetic) game instead.
It seems like Ben is in love with himself, as he's in almost every scene, mumbling his lines. He gives Steven Seagal a run for his money for most soft spoken. Affleck is boring, the pace moves at the speed of a turtle, all the other actors only gets a few scenes and none of them are memorable. The love scenes lack passion and worst of all, the violence lacks excitement. It has the most dullest shootouts of any gangster movie I can recall. I couldn't wait for this movie to end.
I don't know what happened with Ben, as he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in it, but he didn't bring his A game, he brought his P (pathetic) game instead.