The Untouchables (1987)
Directed by Brian De Palma
**
Have you ever wondered why The Untouchables isn't mentioned in the same sentence as all the great mobster films? Well, I'll tell you why. It's because the film is dreck. Yes, friends, dreck. It has a script purportedly by playwright David Mamet (but more likely by a thirteen-year-old), dialogue straight out of the cheese section and a story that has very little to show us—but takes a long time doing so. To be sure, Robert De Niro turns in a catchy little performance as the cocky Al Capone, but it somehow got beat to the awards by Sean Connery's role as, well, Sean Connery. Kevin Costner shows us, once again, his lack of gravitas as he reduces lawman Eliot Ness to a pansy wannabe. It's violent, it's pointless, it's a Brian De Palma film. But I repeat myself.
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