Customer Ratings & Reviews

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

This is a great movie when you have xtra time on your hands we watched it on a flight to Jamaica!

Ben Affleck certainly has a great eye for detail and is able to capture a vivid time in early 20th century America. The issue I have is with the base story. (I read the book as well.) It starts strong, has a certain degree of movement, but falls apart at the end with what I think of as a tacked-on ending.

This movie is very good, action, drama and quality picture.

Great movie, one of Ben afflecks better movies, good crime/mob movie

Great movie how old mobster nice Great to see with the family

This is a really great movie to add to your collection...

Very entertaining!I enjoyed it very much! Treat yourself!

My family really enjoyed the time watching the movie

This is an excellent crime drama which Ben Affleck both directs and stars. At about 2 hours and 9 minutes, this movie is deep and tragic.

Following his Amazing preformance in "The Accountant" Been Affleck delivers in this great Gangster film based in the 1920's

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

this was a great movie to watch. I stayed hooked to it the whole time. Ben's movies never disappoint.

This movie got a lot of grief in reviews from people who felt disappointed after getting hit movies like The Town and Argo from director Ben Affleck. I think Live By Night is a fantastically shot period piece, but does slog a little bit in the second act. I would say if you're a big fan of gangster films, then you will like this film. There are some great special features that make this blu ray worth adding to your collection that includes actor/writer/director commentary by Ben Affleck, character studies on the men and women of Live By Night, deleted scenes, and a feature on the writer of the original book.

I enjoyed this movie but if you're looking for a happy ending this isn't the movie for you.

One of Mel Gibson's best movies. Lots of action with a great cast.

This drama is for those who like suspense with a surprise ending.

this was a thriller and I don't want to give away the surprises

Excellent movie I wanna as impressed with the whole package