The Untouchables
| Publisher: Paramount | Running Time: 2 Hours 0 Minutes |
| Release Date: October 5, 2004 | Format: DVD |
Robert De Niro, Kevin Costner, Sean Connery. Could you think of a better list of actors for a blockbuster movie? Fitting for a masterpiece like The Untouchables. The movie follows the exploits of Al Capone's Chicago mob ring during Prohibition. The Second City was a haven for crime in the early 1930s with alcohol importation from Canada playing a central role in these illegal activities. Al Capone was the leading mobster of the times and needed brought down. It took an agent with the U.S. Treasury Department to do so.
The movie starts with the intimidation of a shop owner who refused to buy Capone's alcohol. The enforcer left a suitcase bomb, walked away and an innocent child perilously attempts to return his “forgotten” package when it explodes. The outrage from the government and U.S. Treasury agent Eliot Ness led to a crackdown on Capone's operations in Chicago. If it wasn't for their efforts, Capone's reign over the city might have continued into The War and beyond.
Eliot Ness winds up finding little support from the Chicago Police Department, which was infiltrated by officials that Capone paid off. He organizes a task force comprised of a new police recruit fresh out of the academy, an accountant and an old-time cop walking the beat. It turns out that the accountant can not only kick some serious ass, but also is the most important players in their group. The only way to bring Capone down is by connecting him with money that he received from an endless list of companies that he owned and wasn't paying income tax for.
The Untouchables is a movie that succeeds in recreating Prohibition-era Chicago with an atmosphere of fear and extortion. The movie is two hours of non-stop action and never fails to remain entertaining. The slowest part in the whole movie is near the end where Eliot Ness is waiting in a Chicago train station waiting for Capone's bookkeeper, who was trying to flee the city in order to avoid testifying against Capone in court. The scene was drawn out with a lot of waiting and Costner helping a lady get a baby carriage up steps.
The bottom line is that The Untouchables is a classic. Easily one of the best mobster movies of all time, The Untouchables relives the streets of Chicago and brings the legendary mob boss to life with the colorful and admittedly scary Robert De Niro. Seeing Capone bang in one of his enforcer's heads with a baseball bat illustrates the brutal nature of the mob. It took a group of four men (actually there were ten in real-life) to bring down Capone's gang of thugs. Anyone interested in the mob or Prohibition should check out this movie.
| Movie: | 9.5 |
| Acting: | 9 |
| Extras: | 8 |
| Final: | 9.2 |
| Written by Kyle | Review Guide |
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