The Untouchables starring Robert De Niro, Kevin Costner, and Sean Connery is a crime action movie where Prohibition agent Eliot Ness fails in his attempt to nail down Al Capone, so he recruits a small but elite group that can't be easily corrupted to bring Al Capone to justice.
Taut screenwriting (David Mamet) and a superb cast -- including a prize-winning performance by Sean Connery as the veteran Chicago cop -- help make 'The Untouchables' a classic.
De Palma does superb job with the action sequences, which are choreographed, paced and acted out so well that they don't leave a palm dry in the house.
It goes to that place that all films aspiring to greatness must attain: the country of myth, where all the figures must be larger and more vivid than life.
De Palma's style rides substance out of town to leave a glorious compendium of genre cool, remixing the original '50s TV series just as Indiana Jones took a whip to '30s serial adventures.
