Live By Night

What you put out into this world will always come back to you, but it never comes back how you predict. Taking fatherly advice is not in Joe Coughlin’s nature. Instead, the WWI vet is a self-proclaimed anti-establishment outlaw, despite being the son of the Boston Police Deputy Superintendent. Joe’s not all bad, though; in fact, he’s not really bad enough for the life he’s chosen. Unlike the gangsters he refuses to work for, he has a sense of justice and an open heart, and both work against him, leaving him vulnerable time and again—in business and in love. Driven by a need to right the wrongs committed against him and those close to him, Joe heads down a risky path that goes against his upbringing and his own moral code. Leaving the cold Boston winter behind, he and his reckless crew turn up the heat in Tampa. And while revenge may taste sweeter than the molasses that infuses every drop of illegal rum he runs, Joe will learn that it comes at a price.

This was a textbook half and half movie.  When they were doing the gangster stuff - this movie was awesome.  Kept marvelling once again at how good of a director Ben Affleck is.  But when it was the slow and romance stuff it was kind of blah and dragged.  The movie was still watchable and enjoyable but it kind of felt like it didn't know what kind of a movie it wanted to be.  Because of that it ended up probably being the worst directorial effort from him to date.

I would somewhat recommend people checking this out.  It's not a bad movie but doesn't really commit to what it wants to be enough and gets dragged down because of it.