The Untouchables

1987

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

164
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 89% · 76 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.8/10 10 351449 351.4K

chicago, illinois prohibition era gangster baseball bat white suit tough cop

Plot summary

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.

Director

Brian De Palma Photo
Brian De Palma

Top cast

Robert De Niro Photo
Robert De Niro as Al Capone
Kevin Costner Photo
Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness
Robert Swan Photo
Robert Swan as Mountie Captain
Will Zahrn Photo
Will Zahrn as Defense Attorney
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801.55 MB
1280*720
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23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
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1.60 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
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5.88 GB
3840*2160
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1 hr 59 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by peteranderson 7 / 10

A Seven!

Another overall score of 7 out of 10. -Prohibition was a main, huge and big point of the 1930's and its good that it has been brought up in this film alongside gangster Al Capone. What the film does well is their capacity to keep level the gangster side of the movie and the crime and the 1920's feel with an American feel. All the theme and genres are kept to well they hit their targets with success and the acting is reasonably good. Kevin Costner is excellent in this, a few others could improve but Kevin is still very good. It had moments of tension and moments which ensured it hit its genre and target audience. A typical 80's gangster movie which proved very good. The writing was also very good as well, good lines, good camera work and good stunts. A 7 is a good mark from me personally it is above average and therefore a good movie and an excellent attempt at making a movie. Despite this I feel Kevin Costner was good in his role and I would reward the film with 3 awards for Writing (Screenplay), Director (Film) and Acting (Kevin Costner and him alone). 7.
Reviewed by grantss 6 / 10

Better-than-average cop-drama, but vastly overrated

Better-than-average cop-drama. That's about the best one can say about this movie. For a crime drama, it is not very gritty and is filled with Hollywood clichés.Reasonably interesting but could have been great. However, there are so many Hollywoodisms and glamourisations it feels quite superficial.The weak script and formulaic movie-for-the-masses directing by Brian De Palma are compounded by the usual unconvincing performance from Kevin Costner. He alternates between dead boring and overly gung ho here.Sean Connery is almost equally flat and unconvincing.In fact, there's hardly a convincing and/or engaging performance to be found here. The only good one comes from Robert De Niro who is charming and suitably mean and scary as Al Capone. Vastly overrated.
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