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The Untouchables (Blu Ray) (1987)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery Director: Brian De Palma Rating: R
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In The Untouchables, Academy Award winner Sean Connery is Chicago cop Jim Malone, who advises Federal Agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) on how to battle and beat the mob kingpin Al Capone (Robert De Niro): shoot fast and shoot first.
Kevin Costner is idealistic federal agent Eliot Ness, whose assignment to clean up Prohibition-era Chicago leads to violence and manly questions about upholding the law. Initially powerless to stop the flow of booze into the city (the police force is corrupt and everyone in town seems to be on the mob’s payroll), Ness finds guidance from an older streetwise cop (Sean Connery, who won an Academy Award for this role in The Untouchables) who convinces him he'll need to break some rules if he wants to bring down head mobster Al Capone (Robert De Niro). Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith play Ness’s other recruits, who together must stand tall against a city full of assassins and go after Al Capone and his empire known as The Untouchables. Director Brian De Palma (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE) packs the film The Untouchables with violence and creative camera movements while David Mamet's intelligent script capably dodges cliché at every turn. There’s a real sense of what's at stake for these characters on a personal level, which contrasts nicely with the futility inherent in enforcing Prohibition in the first place. The film is based on the autobiographical book by Ness (cowritten with Oscar Fraley) and the 1959-63 TV series; Ennio Morricone (THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY) composed the uninhibitedly bombastic score for the The Untouchables.
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