Five years after his career-defining clusterfuck with
Fant4stic, writer/director/editor Josh Trank has returned with a decidedly
lower-key feature, covering the final year in the life of notorious gangster Al
Capone. For a lot of the past five years, there’s been debate about what
exactly caused Fant4stic to turn out as bafflingly as it did, with Trank
himself attributing it to studio interference. I myself wondered if that was
the case, as it was the only explanation that could come close to making sense
of what happened… but the only real way to prove that was if Trank was able to
come back, properly in the driver’s seat, and deliver a feature that showed he
still had the talent he showcased so bracingly back with Chronicle. And far as I'm concerned, he actually managed it here.
