Live by Night [Blu-ray] [2016]

Overall good movie. I really enjoyed the era. Been always does a good job.

Solid cast. Visually well done. Plenty of action for all.

I'm not sure why this movie didn't do well at the box office but I enjoyed it and will watch it again in the future. Definitely worth adding to the collection!

Ben Affleck is great in this classic Italian Irish mob fest. And mind you I'm not a Ben Affleck fan.the plot is easy to follow the characters are engaging and sometimes problematic.but what really gets me is it's. Perfect I love the clothes the old cars and the promiscuous women. Don't pass this one up at 6 bucks it's a steal.

This movie is pretty good. It's older now so it probably is discounted. Worth any price of admission really.

The problem with Live by Night is that it is both too much and never enough. Ben Affleck, who has proved himself a strong storyteller in his screenwriting and directing skills, certainly has a fine ambition in his latest effort, but it simply never seems to pan out the way he originally imagined it. This is to the point that Live by Night is as big, extravagant, and sexy a gangster drama as one could hope to get made in the studio system today and yet the story is nowhere near as compelling as it should be to make the amount of effort put into the costumes, production design, and other period details matter. The question on my mind as the film came to its one too many endings-none of which are satisfactory, I might add-was, "how did this happen?" How did a filmmaker such as Affleck, with a story he himself adapted from a Dennis Lehane novel (Gone, Baby, Gone, Mystic River, Shutter Island, The Drop), in this time period, and with a star-studded cast that features stand-out performances from the likes of Chris Messina and Elle Fanning end up sinking as quickly as a dead body attached to a boulder in a river? There is seemingly never a clear answer as to how so many promising parts can come together to form a subpar whole, but with Live by Night the majority of as much seems to fall on the script never knowing exactly what type of story it wants to tell and as a result, the momentum of the pacing never finding its footing well enough to keep viewers invested. There is always more material in a novel than a two hour movie can handle and it seems rather than relay what was more or less the same story the source material was telling through the prism of a single perspective or theme that Affleck instead attempted to cram in as much of Lehane's novel as he could resulting in the film feeling more than overstuffed while still leaving the viewer hungry for more. When talking of adapting a book for the screen director David Fincher said, "The book is many things. You have to choose which aspect you want to make a movie from." It seems Affleck might have learned a thing or two from his Gone Girl director as this lack of a singular viewpoint is exactly what Live by Night is missing; delivering so many characters, ideas, and plot strands it's hard to care about any of them.

Movie was really great. I don't know where all of the complaints are stemming from unless people are going into the film hating Affleck. He does a decent job in this movie and it's much better than most everything else I've seen him in... including Argo (the Oscar winner) Someone else mentioned The Town and while it is better, it's a different type of film and is up there with Heat (DeNiro & Pacino) IMO. Live By Night is way better than other movies I've bought this year, regrettably I might add, like Suicide Squad, Manchester By the Sea, Jack Reacher, Independence Day, etc... I mean seriously, movies this year have been pretty terrible and this one ain't that

I love gangster movies and when I saw the trailer for this it looked good. So I finally bought it and it was even better than I thought it would be.