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The Untouchables (1987)
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Movie Review by AJ 
April 14th, 2006
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Ah, so here's the kind of De Palma stuff I've been missing. The Untouchables, an exhilarating kind of old-school-meets-new-school crime flick, covers the street and political warfare of Prohibition-era Chicago with unmatched wit and vibrancy. Taking from a number of real-life events, a novel, and the old television series of the same name, the film is both a simple, entertaining cops-and-robbers yarn and a brutally violent drama that paints its characters in broad strokes that have a kind of subtlety unto themselves. Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, and Charles Martin Smith are all fine as the "Untouchables" of the title, but it's Robert De Niro in a brilliant supporting performance as gangster bigwig Al Capone that steals the film...and that is quite a feat, considering the film is one of the very best on crime prevention ever made.
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