‘Dick Tracy’ in Review

Early reviews of the much-hyped release of “Dick Tracy,” starring Warren Beatty, Madonna and Al Pacino, have revealed mixed reactions. More reviews will be in when the Touchstone Pictures film opens nationwide in theaters June 15.

Here is a sampling:

AP . . . . . . CHARACTER AND STYLE

Forget the plot. The essence of “Dick Tracy” lies in character and style, and there it exceeds last summer’s clunky, over-produced “Batman.” The characters are outrageous and, for the most part, entertaining. . . . Beatty plays Tracy straight and true blue.

VARIETY . . . . . . REMOTE AND UNINVOLVING

Though it looks ravishing . . . Warren Beatty’s longtime pet project is a curiously remote and uninvolving film, suffering most because of Beatty’s own empty performance. . . . Probably won’t reach mega-hit level promised by the advance hype.

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER . . . . . . PRAISE FOR PACINO

Although superficially resembling last year’s “Batman,” “Dick Tracy” is at once more broadly entertaining and more thoughtfully conceived. . . . Pacino nearly steals the show with his nastily comic, heavily made-up performance as the movie’s villain, Big Boy Caprice.