Thursday, April 07, 2022
The Outfit
It’s 1956 in Chicago, Leonard Burling (Mark Rylance) quietly runs a small tailoring shop with his snowglobe-collecting receptionist Mabel (Zoey Deutch) in the middle of a Irish Mob neighborhood. Mob Boss Roy Boyle, his enforcer Francis, & his second-in-command son Ritchie (Dylan O’Brien) discreetly use the shop as a dirty money drop. One day, a shootout with a rival gang & an incriminating FBI tape jeopardized this operation of Al Capone’s syndicate known as the Outfit. Hang on to your seats & sit tight as you & the characters on screen try to figure out who is the mole that’s trying to rat them out. Tensions will grow with each twist & turn. Rylance is superb as the calm Englishman caught in the middle.
Alien gives it 3½ “I’m not a tailor. I’m a cutter.” stars out of 4.
