The Untouchables (2007, Blu-ray Disc)

The Truth About The Untouchables The Real Ones and The Movie Ones As told by Chicago Police Officer Jim Malone, played by Sir Sean Connery in an Academy Award winning performance Aye, you ve got microbreweries and people brewin beer at home all over the country now. They re fancy, with their books and chemicals and such, but we didn t have such things. The way everyone is so open about it now, the temperance people would ve passed out from fear. Back when I was poundin a beat on cold Chicago streets, those people would be hoo-haahing all day long on street corners, jabbering about there bein..

Untouchables (1987) Director Brian DePalma brought the story of the classic rivalry between ganglord Al Capone and federal agent Eliot Ness to the big screen in this genre hit. The theme of the movie is, "What are you prepared to do?" This is enunciated by Sean Connery as former beat cop Jim Malone, when he confronts the incredibly naive Ness with the realities of organized crime in Chicago. The story is well known from the television series starring Robert Stack, as well as dozens of gangster movies that preceded DePalma s effort. Capone, aptly played by Robert DeNiro, is the crime lord of...

As is so often the case with me, I was channel surfing the other night when I cam across a film that I hadn't seen in many years. A film that I loved when I was younger for it's violence and bloodshed, but loved now for it's emotion and depth. That film is The Untouchables. Released in 1987, it boasts an all-star cast and accurately depicts 1930's Chicago during prohibition. A brutal time when gangs ruled the streets, corruption was rampant, and Al Capone reigned supreme. The film opens in 1930 and we are introduced to Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner). Ness is a U.S. Treasury Agent who is assigned.

Brian De Palma directed two of the most overrated films of the 1980's. People adore both the ultra-violence of "Scarface" and the Prohibition melodrama of "The Untouchables." The common thread between the films is the lack of subtlety - everything is played over the top. While this self-indulgence worked to a certain extent for the Pacino flick (with brilliant moments of unintentional comedy), De Palma in "The Untouchables" forces the viewer to hold sympathy with Costner's Eliot Ness, one of the most wooden and unlikeable heroes in film history. The film opens with an Al Capone (Robert De...