Bugsy

...Bugsy is a grand, old-fashioned Big Hollywood Picture.

He’s a real smoothie, Warren Beatty, and when he plays one in a movie he is almost always effective. But his title role in “Bugsy” is more than effective, it’s perfect for him...

Director-star Beatty portrays gangster legend Benjamin Bugsy Siegel as both a romantic visionary and a psychopathic killer--a raw mass of contradictory impulses.