The Untouchables [DVD] [1987]

Not factual but good entertainment! Sean Connery always does a great job of acting. This is Kevin Costner in his heyday. Robert De Niro does a wicked bad guy. He plays Al Capone. Lots of good verses bad in this flick wherein the good triumphs. Prohibition era bad guys are still sociopaths. The film ends where prohibition is repealed. One idea being that the fight was for nothing, I suppose. Except, I think the point is that whenever something is against the law--whether drugs, murder, alcohol, prostitution, or anything else, for that matter (it could be eating butternut squash), the sociopaths will do whatever they can to do what is forbidden and make a buck off of it--their ego demands nothing less. Then there are the folks who see it as their duty to prevent the bad guys from getting away with whatever it is they are doing because innocent people get hurt and laws are broken. So good versus bad. With lots of action and tugging on the heart strings, this movie satisfies that hunger to identify with bravery, courage, doing the right thing--and winning. Again, even though Capone went down for tax evasion, he still went down and although this movie errs on the side of fantasy of the fixings surrounding that incarceration, it was good, action filled entertainment.

Great movie!

I can't say enough good things about this movie. Good cast, great acting, based on Al Capone's life. You have Kevin Costner in his prime, Robert DeNiro, Andy Garcia n freaking Sean Connery 007 lol choice view u won't be disappointed!

Fun for everyone in your house.

The Untouchables is a solid effort from Brian De Palma describing the corruption and greed in the Chicago area during the Prohibition era. Kevin Costner stars as the earnest federal agent Eliot Ness whose ideals are put to the test in his attempt to put away the powerful Al Capone, played with zeal by Robert De Niro. While unable to prove some of the larger evils perpetrated by Capone and his henchman, Ness forms a team of his own and in the process learns to put aside some of his idealistic notions of crime fighting in favor of a more practical approach. It is this support team that forms a solid acting backbone, with tremendous performances put in by Sean Connery as Malone who teaches Ness his unique approach to Chicago-style justice, Andy Garcia as the sharp-eyed rookie fresh out of the academy, and Charles Martin Smith as the everyman accountant who gives Ness the initial idea to bring Capone to justice by tax fraud. Perhaps the strongest performance in the film is none other than Ennio Morricone's rousing score which lifts several scenes in the movie to mythic proportions and helps set the tempo of this film. Morricone's mastery of the musical medium is on full display here, from the suspenseful and dramatic opening theme to the eerie baby lullaby in the classic Potemkin-inspired train station shootout scene to the triumphant victory in the courthouse room. The wide variety of styles Morricone employs in the film proves to be the ideal partner to the solid cinematic work and acting in the film. The Blu-ray edition of this film is a solid effort. The transfer won't erase some of obvious special effect deficiencies of its day (take a look at when Costner pushes a Capone henchman off the courthouse roof), but the mooted grays depicted in this film serve the accentuate the moral grays the characters find themselves working in. The soundtrack has been cleaned up and while there's no uncompressed audio track, it still serves a beautiful English 6.1 DTS track which is to be expected given the film's age. Last of all, the disc contains a solid set of dated extras containing discussions from cast and crew about how the film came together from costume design all the way to the shooting of certain scenes. This is a solid addition for any gangster film aficionado. See it for it's amazing dramatic action sequences and amazing film score as well don't miss a powerhouse performance turned in by Sean Connery.

Great movie

One of the best Gangster movies ever made. A movie that belongs in every Gangster movie collection.

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