This would make a wow of a stage musical. There's so much music in the film, mostly from Madonna and Mandy Patinkin, that the storyline seems like a series of dramatic interruptions. If it lacks emotive impact, that's the effect of the makers' own intentions in brilliantly constructing the film as a comic-book sprung to life. The bad guys all have exaggerated features (a shade too much so) and they and the reporters and police all wear different coloured coats to correspond to the drawings in the original Dick Tracy comic strip, so faithfully re-created here. Still, we can appreciate the performance of Warren Beatty (who also directs), an admirable if slightly over-age Tracy, Madonna, doing some of her best screen work to date as a singing siren, and especially Oscar-nominated Al Pacino. Perfectly cast as the ranting Big Boy Caprice, Al looks like a caricaturist's impression of Sylvester Stallone.


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