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The Untouchables (1987)
  
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Director:
Brian
De Palma |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Crime/Gangster |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
De
ubestikkelige |
RUNNING
TIME
119 minutes |
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Producer:
Art Linson |
Screenwriter (based on the book by Eliot Ness and Oscar
Fraley):
David Mamet |
Review
Under
the guidance of Brian De Palma, who entered this project on the back
of two consecutive flops in Body Double and Wise Guys,
the story of how Al Capone was brought down in Prohibition Era
Chicago has become a contrived spectacle – a production so big and
polished that every scene is only a hairsbreadth away from drying up
completely. Despite this, The Untouchables is an engrossing
film with tension and nerve, largely thanks to David Mamet's often
crisp writing and Sean Connery's brilliant performance, which is
what brings a human touch to this film. Less human is Robert De
Niro's caricatured Al Capone, who's never given anything other than
mastodontic scenes to work with by De Palma. And a "mastodon" he
becomes. The film is famous for the iconic scene at Union Station,
in which De Palma displays his set-piece skills to the delight of
movie buffs all around.
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