Tired . . . .

Rating: 6/10 (3 November 2010)

Of any of the things I can say about Brian Depalma's The Untouchables tired is the word that comes most to mind. It is filled with instances that have been recycled or redone. Plot points that are so predictable that even a person who has never seen a movie before will realise it all.
The way Sean Connery is introduced you know he is going to die. In the beginning you know the whole thing is a hoax and they haven't caught the criminals, Even the score by Ennio Morricone seems rehashed from other movies. There is nothing interesting about the movie, not it's dialogue, not it's acting. Nothing.
Even the set that people praise is not that great. There is scene in the middle of the movie where a car comes down a road and every car parked on the side is the same. If you want to make a period piece why be so lazy why not actually make the effort to have it all down to detail.
The acting is pretty generic. Robert Deniro must be laughing at the easy money he has made by playing the character that he has played in so many other movies. Sean Connery plays an irishman with the worst accent I have ever heard. At some points he is heavily accented at other times there is nothing. And somehow he got the best supporting Oscar for this.
Still the movie provides a little entertainment because it is well made by Brian De Palma. You will not get bored but by the end you might wonder the point of the entire exercise.