1987 Directed by Brian De Palma
Young Treasury Agent Eliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.
Kevin Costner Sean Connery Charles Martin Smith Andy García Robert De Niro Richard Bradford Jack Kehoe Brad Sullivan Billy Drago Patricia Clarkson Vito D'Ambrosio Steven Goldstein Peter Aylward Don Harvey Robert Swan John J. Walsh Del Close Colleen Bade Greg Noonan Sean Grennan Larry Viverito Sr. Kevin Michael Doyle Mike Bacarella Michael P. Byrne Kaitlin Montgomery Aditra Kohl Charles Keller Watson Larry Brandenburg Chelcie Ross Show All…
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Man this movie is such a blast. Mamet doing a quintessential treatise on moral and ethical purity, treating this pulp like it's "A Man for All Seasons", and then just as miraculously De Palma is like fuck all this Thomas More shit, I'm making pulp here. And Morricone, I mean honestly.
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honestly SO silly, probably too silly for me. the Morricone score goes off too hard (loose endorsement). Andy Garcia has never been more beautiful (hard endorsement). great set pieces, generally, though perhaps no scene in the movie will live up to the pure joy of the second the credits started rolling, Dad shouting "who played THE BABY in THE UNTOUCHABLES?" into his phone.
that said, I feel obligated to address my position of power as a Letterboxd microceleb (with regards to nepotism, industry connections, etc.) and come forward with the fact that: yes, my great uncle Seymour was an extra in the courtroom scene, visible at the 1:48:49-50 mark, sitting four rows back on the far right. by his account, "Bobby" De Niro was "very nice" (??), and that's really all I got here. hope this clears everything up!
I watched this movie with my mom last night, she had never seen it and she loved it. I can't remember the last movie I watched with her that she made it all the way through. "So the woman with the baby at the train station had nothing to do with the bookkeeper? He just had to help her? That's great! Kevin Costner sure is handsome." This movie is mom approved.
if there's one thing certain, it's that Sean Connery and his endearingly inconsistent accents will definitely be missed
"de palma is delicious! he respects music; he respects composers. for the untouchables, everything i proposed to him was fine, but then he wanted a piece that i didn't like at all, and of course we didn't have an agreement on that. it was something i didn't want to write - a triumphal piece for the police!" ― ennio morricone
ciao maestro 🎻
Somehow went 32 years without seeing this. Got into a long debate with my viewing companion about to what extent the movie's depiction of Eliot Ness was sincere or tongue-in-cheek, to what extent this mattered, and to what extent I was making excuses for a celebrated male auteur. Ultimately my feeling is that for De Palma, this movie is first and foremost an exercise in style, and a chance to traffic in the aesthetics and tropes of Old Hollywood gangster movies. I don't think he really cares much about Ness, Capone, or the issues they raise. When Scorsese makes a movie, there is rarely any doubt that he feels the characters and the themes deep in his heart and his…
It’s been so long since I saw this movie that when I saw it it was my first Brian De Palma film. A few showcase sequences aside, it’s not very De Palma-y. It’s much more of a meat-and-potatoes cop drama — but we’re talking the Peter Luger porterhouse and Luger's Special German Fried Potatoes of policiers.
"The Untouchables" has always been one of those films that I watched within my youth from a larger-than-life fashion. Being someone born in the 80's but really had independent thought and recognition of film in the early 90's, this film had become already established as a film in popular prevalence rather than new or something of a newer classic as it is today. With that, this film and "Dick Tracy" (1990) were the films I often associated with when it came to the gangster driven genre. I grew up with them and associated loads of unbreaking nostalgic value within, therefore I will fully establish there is plenty of biased energy for my love of "The Untouchables".
Now nostalgia is a…
