
After building an empire with bootleg alcohol, legendary crime boss Al Capone rules Chicago with an iron fist. Though Prohibition Agent Eliot Ness attempts to take Capone down, even his best efforts fail due to widespread corruption within the Windy City's police force. Recruiting an elite group of lawmen who won't be swayed by bribes or fear, including Irish-American cop Jimmy Malone, Ness renews his determination to bring Capone to justice.... (Full plot summary below)
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After building an empire with bootleg alcohol, legendary crime boss Al Capone rules Chicago with an iron fist. Though Prohibition Agent Eliot Ness attempts to take Capone down, even his best efforts fail due to widespread corruption within the Windy City's police force. Recruiting an elite group of lawmen who won't be swayed by bribes or fear, including Irish-American cop Jimmy Malone, Ness renews his determination to bring Capone to justice.
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| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe results are watchable enough, with a particularly adept use of Sean Connery, Chicago locations, and period details. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordEthics aside, the filmmaking by DePalma is stylish and alternates between shocking surprise and hold-your-breath quiet. |
| TimeRichard SchickelMamet's elegantly efficient script does not waste a word, and De Palma does not waste a shot. The result is a densely layered work moving with confident, compulsive energy. |
| GuardianDerek MalcolmThe Untouchables is two hours of fairly solid entertainment, an eventually uplifting parable about right beating might, cast in the form of a Warner Brothers social realist picture of the thirties. |
| Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeWhile overtly melodramatic, The Untouchables is a perceptive and hard-driven actioner. It's an intriguing character confrontation, loaded with ironies, both personal and social. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay not have much thematic depth, but it represents two hours of pure, exuberant entertainment – an epic gangster tale rendered on a grand scale. |
| BBC.comNeil SmithFew old TV shows have been brought to the big screen with such élan as Brian De Palma's majestic adaptation of the 60s small screen classic The Untouchables. |
| eFilmCritic.comBrian MckayOne of De Palma's best. Great period gangster film. Connery and De Niro fantastic. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisCostner's lack of charisma, Connery's arrogance, and De Palma's disinterest in his material add up to a pretty lame couple of hours. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergDe Palma, Mamet, De Niro, Connery ... what's not to like? |