Troy's Top 100 Movies. #95 Dick Tracy

#95 Dick Tracy
The year was 1990, and the only comic book movies to be found were Batman, which had been released a year previous, and the Superman movies released over a decade previous. Dick Tracy is a comic book movie among comic book movies. Meaning that this film is so bright and so colorful it looks like it is right out of the pulp pages of the 1930's. Warren Beatty stars as Dick Tracy, a detective who finds himself on the losing end of a battle with the mob led by "Big Boy" Caprice played by Al Pacino. With the help of "kid" a runaway he took in and an uneasy partnership with Madonna's "Breathless" Mahoney Tracy sacrifices his relationship and his career trying to bring an end to "Big Boy" and corruption in his city.