Tagline: Never stop fighting till the fight is done
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Written by: Oscar Fraley, Eliot Ness
Actor include: Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Sean Connery
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Length: 119 minutes
Banned: Nope
Review:
I really was surprised how cheesy this was, I'd always heard it was an amazing picture. Now to be fair it's entertaining, and rather well made though overproduced. The soundtrack is distractingly bad, I don't know what Ennio Morricone was thinking but it cheapened some otherwise powerful scenes. Kevin Costner takes on the role of Eliot Ness, the good cop who assembled a team of "Untouchables" who were out to bust Al Capone (Robert De Niro looking like BH90210's James Eckhouse). Sean Connery was very likeable as a tough Irish cop who was honest, but had some strange ways of getting people to co-operate. The crew were immune to threats, and bribes but of course Capone's team were out there to show them that they aren't as "Untouchable" as they thought they were. It was very laughably cliche (baby in carriage going downstairs during a gunfight?), but at least rather violent. The sets are incredibly detailed and the suits as well (Giorgio Armani created the wardrobe) and although I didn't find this to be the classic I was expecting it was worth watching, it just wasn't Brian De Palma's strongest effort.
Availability: On DVD & Blu-Ray
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