The Untouchables

The story about a team of good cops fighting a dreaded gangster must have been beaten to death over and over again…..but in the hands of Brian De Palma and his accomplished cast (Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Sean Connery and Robert De Niro) you get a stylish period thriller which you’ll love watching.

Costner plays officer Eliot Ness who vows to bring down the dreaded Al Capone (De Niro), but after initial failures he seeks the help of beat-cop Malone (Connery) who kind of becomes his tutor. Also, in his team of “Untouchables” are accountant Wallace (Charles Martin Smith) and a new police force recruit George (Andy Garcia). How this team helps in bringing Capone to justice forms the rest of the story. This is only my third De Palma film after Mission Impossible and Carlito’s Way and what I’ve come to notice is the way he chooses simple plots but builds a tight screenplay which makes all the difference…all these movies were thrillers which one can sit back and enjoy without having to be alert about every plot detail…this is what I really found appealing about his films. In 2008, Palma is bringing out a prequel to this movie called “The Untouchables: Capone Rising”. To sum it up….this should definitely be on your list of cop films to watch.