Solid story

Rating: 8/10 (5 May 2006)

"The Untouchables" retells the story of Elliot Ness and his crew trying to bring down legendary gangster Al Capone.
The movie starts with Elliot Ness (Costner, before he became rubbish) being appointed to head up a team trying to quash gangsters illegally tring to bring alcohol to Chicago. His major target is Al Capone (De Niro, given no where enough screen time), who has so far managed to elude anyone trying to bring him down. Ness doesn't know how and doesn't have the team to help him succeed. A chance meeting with a beat cop, Jim Malone (Connery, in another great job), inspires Ness that the job can be done and he makes his first point of business getting Malone onto his team. They decide they must get in outsiders due to corruption and enlist an accountant from Washington and a fresh out of the academy rookie George Stone (Andy Garcia, also doing a solid job,especially in one of the final scenes).
On the way to bringing down Capone they encounter corruption,threats and all sorts of roadblocks. Will Ness get his man? See it and find out, unless you know even basic history in which case you'll know the answer.