Great Movie | The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

Better than the TV series | The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] | Robert DeNiro, Sean Connery

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	• The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] Robert DeNiro, Sean Connery Paramount, 2008 average customer review:based on 209 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A timeless film!

This film will never go out of style. It is set in such an interesting time in our history. We had just come home from Chicago where we took an "Untouchables Tour" of the City. Couldn't resist purchasing this film to put a finishing touch to our tour. It was as great as I remember when I first saw it in the theatre.

Great Movie

I owned this on VHS and loved it. I am converting to DVD and this was a must for the collection.

Better than the TV series

Expecting the The Untouchables to be a bad remake of the TV series, I was reluctant to view it. In my opinion, the movie version outshines its predecessor. Connery brings out the best in Costner, Smith, and Garcia. With Connery and De Niro's characterizations, the movie transcends the black-and-white series (on my childhood set)that deals with black-and-white issues.

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the war on drugs of another time

Organized crime has Chicago bought and paid for under Al Capone.
Police officers and judges dance to the tune of bootleg booze.
This was real life in the prohibition era where the federal law
against alcohol made the Mafia smugglers and brewers kings.
A federal task force was set up under Eliot Ness
and he was a tough as the criminals he fought.
This movie is actually a remake of a TV series from the late 50's early 60's with Robert Stack:
The Untouchables - Season 1, Vol. 1.
Like the westerns about OK Corral, what was historical fact
has tended to run into Hollywwod's glorifications.
The acting here is pretty good and all the period cars are very fine,
but one finds himself doubting the scenes and costumes after seeing a number
of films actually done at that time in black and white.
The baby buggy scene is really fantastic, in which two
treasury agents take on a whole gang of thugs and win.

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Not better than Goodfellas or The Godfather, but more fun

The verdict:

Sean Connery -- A career performance*
Andy Garcia -- A glimpse of a great young actor.
Robert De Niro -- A huge impact in just a few scenes.
Kevin Costner -- Not bad, actually.

* So what if the accent was rated as the worst of all time? (Empire magazine)

The argument:

The plot isn't deep but the sets and costumes are beautiful and the writing (Mamet adapted the screenplay) is top-drawer. Connery's Malone and De Niro's Capone get the choicest bits.

The evidence:

Malone: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

Capone: A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms... What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Teamwork... Looks, throws, catches, hustles. Part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field... what is he? You follow me? No one. Sunny day, the stands are full of fans. What does he have to say? I'm goin' out there for myself. But... I get nowhere unless the team wins. [cue baseball bat]

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The critics and public agree. Brian De Palma's The Untouchables is a must-see masterpiece - glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago... and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. This classic confrontation between good and evil and stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first.