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List Price: $19.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 03 June, 1987 DVD Release : 16 January, 2001 |
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The Untouchables description As noted critic Pauline Kael wrote, the 1987 box-office hit The Untouchables is "like an attempt to visualize the public's collective dream of Chicago gangsters." In other words, this lavish reworking of the vintage TV series is a rousing potboiler from a bygone era, so beautifully designed and photographed--and so craftily directed by Brian De Palma--that the historical reality of Prohibition-era Chicago could only pale in comparison. From a script by David Mamet, the movie pits four underdog heroes (the maverick lawmen known as the Untouchables) against a singular villain in Al Capone, played by Robert De Niro as a dapper caesar holding court (and a baseball bat) against any and all challengers. Kevin Costner is the naive federal agent Eliot Ness, whose lack of experience is tempered by the streetwise alliance of a seasoned Chicago cop (Sean Connery, in an Oscar-winning performance), a rookie marksman (Andy Garcia), and an accountant (Charles Martin Smith) who holds the key to Capone's potential downfall. The movie approaches greatness on the strength of its set pieces, such as the siege near the Canadian border, the venal ambush at Connery's apartment, and the train-station shootout partially modeled after the "Odessa steps" sequences of the Russian classic Battleship Potemkin. It's thrilling stuff, fueled by Ennio Morricone's dynamic score, but it's also manipulative and obvious. If you're inclined to be critical, the movie gives you reason to complain. If you'd rather sit back and enjoy a first-rate production with an all-star cast, The Untouchables may very well strike you as a classic. --Jeff Shannon |
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| I never understood the whole homophobia thing, but I guess you get it with this movie. Okay Okay peoples, maybe perhaps it really is about some guys who are invincible but that movie already came out and that bartender that played for the Eagles, well that is a football team and they touch a lot. In fact that game, they dive and give flying bear hugs to each other. Kevin Costner is here and you know, he tried making it some emo-sap ridden baseball movie but the guys with the machine guns were not having it!
When MC Hammer jumped on stage and said "can't touch this" I just turned it off. I said to my friend "friend, why did you rent this, next time I am going with you to the store" and that was the end of our movie night |
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