Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

sergelamarche This second version of the Capote story as the writer of In cold blood beats the first. Infamous depicts the story much better, and hilariously, rendering Truman more truly I believe. His relationship with the murderers is also much more credible here. If true, this would make the films In cold Blood and Capote rather inaccurate regarding the real nature of the killers, especially Capote's friend.

taswavo999 Awesome film - takes some getting used to - unless you find out that the portrayal of the early part if the film is true. Toby Jones was awesome and I comment the casting having scene what Truman looked like and knowing how awesome Jones is. The 'lesser parts' make for an awesome list and all were, as we expect, brilliant(Weaver, Paltrow, Stevenson, Davis, Bogdanovich and Rossellini). Brilliant and MADE the film as the lesser parts. Otherwise the main plot made no sense - essential to the film.A masterwork - screenplay, acting, directing and even the editing and cinematography.Well done indeed.

Jackie Scott-Mandeville Toby Jones's portrayal of Capote is better acted, more accurate; captures Capote's idiosyncrasies without self-consciousness and therefore is more convincing; than Philip Seymour Hoffman's better-known version in 'Capote'. The supporting cast are wonderful too, from Sandra Bullock's underplayed interpretation of Nelle Harper Lee, where she embodies the character entirely from the way she walks, to her sense of irony and sympathy with her friend. In Lee's masterpiece, 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Lee describes the character Dill, based on the young Capote, in ways which are in keeping with the way Toby Jones plays the adult Capote. The characters are one and the same. These two brilliant performances lift this film way beyond its counterpart, 'Capote' and Toby Jones should have received the Oscar, not Hoffman, and Sandra Bullock should have received the Best Supporting Actress award. What a pity this film did not come out sooner so that it would not have been overshadowed by the other one.And this is not all. The subtlety of direction, Daniel Craig's performance as Perry Smith, and the cameos of New York society women with Juliet Stevenson, Sigourney Weaver, Hope Davis, and Isabella Rossellini, were great. Sets and costumes fabulous, screenplay an amazing interpretation of the facts and fiction around 'In Cold Blood'. I cannot commend this film enough. Fantastic achievement.

Bones Eijnar INFAMOUS is a more dynamic, exuberant and visually colorful film than 2005's CAPOTE is, both are films covering the same ground (and so they're naturally up for comparing); author Truman Capote's writing of his seminal book IN COLD BLOOD. I loved CAPOTE, directed by Bennett Miller, it was a atmospheric, melancholic, sad, and somberly gray film with a brilliant Philip Seymour Hoffman as the title-character. Now INFAMOUS is a different animal, but the similarities are as apparent as its differences; both start out with the breadth of 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' in its sails, dwells deeply in Capote's troublesome writings of the book, and closes the curtains with his looming future ahead. That said, its the editing, playfulness and adjustable shifting tone of INFAMOUS that truly makes it stand head and shoulders alongside CAPOTE; it leaps off with contemporary songs, and it nails Capote's personal culture crash; coming straight of with his flair for the high-class society of New York, facing the straight, blue-collar, old-fashioned Kansas, and in extension of this, what the film does carefully brilliant, is that it shows the transformation of Capote. From being the toast of the town, to becoming an alcoholized, depressed, and worn-out shade of his former self, it resulted in 'In Cold Blood' becoming his last finished novel. It's an interesting and highly enjoyable film, and for all the praise that went to Hoffman's performance, I think Toby James looks physically more alike, and also did an amazing job in imitating his voice and manners.