European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Tri Stor pictures Annette Bening and Warren Beatty Star in bugs a film about the gangster who envisioned the gambling Mecca of Las vegas. Chuck Vinch Stalf write Ron Ivlo Viks bugs rated r _ Kik k k Musi see Worth your Lime passable entertainment coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait Warren Beatty roars Back from the torpor of Dick Tracy to Star in this highly romanticized portrait of gangster Benjamin a Bug syn Siegel the Man generally credited with sowing the seeds that would one Day sprout into the glitzy gambling Mecca called Las vegas. This film May not have the visual Richness of Tracy but it has far More body and soul due mostly to the sizzling onscreen chemistry Between Beatty and real life love Annette Bening As Virginia Hill a movie Starlet whom bugs locks onto like a laser Rangefinder. Mob lore has it that Siegel was sent out West by acquaintances Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky to muscle in on the California rackets. Before he was rubbed out by Lansky in 1947, he managed to see through to fruition his dream of building a Casino hotel in the Nevada desert the legendary Flamingo. Director Barry Levinson and writer James Toback take a lot of liberties with the known facts of siegels life a the mobster comes off More like a Sweet schizophrenic rather than the bullying Sociopath that he was a but then Levinson and Toback never claimed to be making a biographical film. Instead its a character study of an obsessive visionary and Beatty rips into the role with surprising exuberance sometimes shouting a mile a minute other times raving and still other times Sweet talking people just before he shoots them. When he Falls for his Starlet his already High Speed life revs up even higher. At one Point Beatty has her in a steamy Clinch and is blathering on about something or other and Bening pulls him up Short Quot do you always talk this much before you do it a the nonplussed Beatty does t blink "1 talk this much just before i kill Toback and Levinson Craft a number of other Clever moments including one standout scene in which they have Beatty engage in a bit of farce. At his new York Home Siegel is trying to hold a Low key birthday party for his daughter engage in relatively decorous discourse with his estranged and unhappy wife and nervously keep up with Beningo a doings in California All while hitting up his mob buddies for a million Bucks to build a nightclub in the Middle of the then Barren desert. Of he also wants to Fly off to Italy to assassinate Benito Mussolini. The supporting cast is first rate and includes Ben Kingsley As Dusky late Rock a no Roll promoter Bill Graham As Luciano i Harvey Keitel As Mickey Cohen siegels Tough sidekick and Flint Gould in a memorable part As a Haggard Friend of Siegel s. Riding in the Back seat of a car while Beatty and Bening scratch and claw up front Gould leans Forward and intones solemnly Quot you two seem very Happy. Its Nice to see the film gets somewhat derivative near the end when Fate closes in on Ste gel with scenes that bring to mind Asa Blanca and Beatty s own Bonnie and Clyde among other films. But Overall the manic Energy Beatty puts up on the screen and Bening s fulfilment of the saucy Promise she haunted in the Dull a s make Bug a tour Star show Short Takis boys n Tho mood rated r ,1111.1 in to Lii ghetto life is on i to Inoue takes von into such a in High boil of to tin us on the a forts of the Voung people is to want to i exc above the time Anil violence in i ubic Ami Cuba Cio oiling. 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