After staying away from looking at the movie for a number of years,due to always hearing a lot of negative reactions towards the title,I was recently caught by surprise,when I read a wonderful review by a fellow IMDb'er that made the film sound much more stylish than I had expected it to be,which led to me getting ready to finally meet Dick Tracy.
View on the film:
Reuniting with cinematography Vittorio Storaro, (who had earlier joined him for 1987's Reds) lead actor/director Warren Beatty firmly places Tracy in an eye dazzling,comic-book world.Staying away from any bleak colours,Beatty and Storaro splash the film in primary colours,which along with giving all of the characters a very animated appearance,also soaks the title in a wonderfully brittle pulp atmosphere.
Packing the rouge's gallery with an amazing number of familiar faces,each of the lead baddies display a clear joy in their performances,with Al Pacino biting everyone's head off as delightful boo-hiss villain Big Boy Caprice,and Dick Van Dyke shows himself to be a less than clean DA.
Despite every film that she now appears in largely getting trashed,Madonna, (who its alleged is one of the few Hollywood actresses that had a romantic relationship with Beatty) gives a very good performance as Breathless Mahoney,as Madonna shows Mahoney to be a dame whose more than happy to push either Caprice and Tracy to the side.Taking on the title role,Beatty gives a strong,lively performance as Tracy,with Beatty showing Tracy to be a cop who has one eye on the rulebook,and one eye on getting a grip on Caprice via means that are 'slightly' outside the law.
Sadly the screenplay by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. is never quite able to match the stylishness displayed in Beatty directing.Being partly damaged by the studio ordering Beatty to cut the movie down from his preferred 135 minute cut of the title,the writers never allow Tracy's battles with the baddies and his growing relationship with 'The Kid' to fully intertwine,which leads to the pace of the movie feeling rather uneven,as the screenplay fails to match Beatty's dazzlingly drawn pop-art Comic-Book.
View on the film:
Reuniting with cinematography Vittorio Storaro, (who had earlier joined him for 1987's Reds) lead actor/director Warren Beatty firmly places Tracy in an eye dazzling,comic-book world.Staying away from any bleak colours,Beatty and Storaro splash the film in primary colours,which along with giving all of the characters a very animated appearance,also soaks the title in a wonderfully brittle pulp atmosphere.
Packing the rouge's gallery with an amazing number of familiar faces,each of the lead baddies display a clear joy in their performances,with Al Pacino biting everyone's head off as delightful boo-hiss villain Big Boy Caprice,and Dick Van Dyke shows himself to be a less than clean DA.
Despite every film that she now appears in largely getting trashed,Madonna, (who its alleged is one of the few Hollywood actresses that had a romantic relationship with Beatty) gives a very good performance as Breathless Mahoney,as Madonna shows Mahoney to be a dame whose more than happy to push either Caprice and Tracy to the side.Taking on the title role,Beatty gives a strong,lively performance as Tracy,with Beatty showing Tracy to be a cop who has one eye on the rulebook,and one eye on getting a grip on Caprice via means that are 'slightly' outside the law.
Sadly the screenplay by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. is never quite able to match the stylishness displayed in Beatty directing.Being partly damaged by the studio ordering Beatty to cut the movie down from his preferred 135 minute cut of the title,the writers never allow Tracy's battles with the baddies and his growing relationship with 'The Kid' to fully intertwine,which leads to the pace of the movie feeling rather uneven,as the screenplay fails to match Beatty's dazzlingly drawn pop-art Comic-Book.