I guess this film made everyone happy, because even though it isn't quite 'The Godfather: Part III', it's still pretty rewarding stuff, for all its shortcomings, including developmental ones.ĭeeply focused on Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel's rise and eventual downfall in organized crime, this film offers no real background development on Siegel or his peers outside of the criminal underworld of the 1940s, and where it could have made up for that with gradual exposition, it tends to continue focusing on crime over genuine nuance, either underdoing or even abandoning certain potentially important dramatic elements to supplement characterization that is already way too thin for its own good, especially within the lead. in this film, not 'Dick Tracy', because even though Madonna has held up way better than Annette Bening (So pretty, and now, not so much), Beatty must have looked at Sean Penn and realized how dangerous marrying Madonna can be to a film career, unlike poor old Guy Ritchie.

I'm sure Beatty was really glad to get the gig, because it lead to him meeting the love of his life. Hey, shortly after 1990, they had to work really hard to take this film seriously in order to make up for that blasted 'The Godfather: Part III'.Okay, fine, I admit that I really, really dug 'The Godfather: Part III', and the guys who made this film must have dug it, too, because if they were trying to make a more serious gangster drama to compensate, then they must not have been trying too hard if they got Warren Beatty to lead, like, right after he did 'Dick Tracy'. Well, it was still weightier than 1976's 'Bugsy Malone', although, honestly, one has to give the guy who proceeded to make 'Midnight Express' credit for realization that it would be hard to make a gangster drama that can be taken seriously when the focus is named Bugsy. I was attempting to be sarcastic, but it's hard to be that effective when a few months before this film out, Parker's latest heavy drama was 'The Commitments', which was still something of a musical comedy. Finally, Clyde Barrow is moving up in the crime business, and someone takes a gangster named Bugsy seriously, instead of just making some fluffy musical number like that silly little sweetheart Alan Parker did.

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