Little fun to be had in this first-rate production 5/10

Rating: 5/10 (14 March 2002)

A smile came to my face every time Sean Connery delivered, rather perfectly I might add, one of his classic racial slurs. Unfortunately, The Untouchables is an unsatisfying gangster film that is ever-so overrated. Kevin Coster gives an astonishingly lazy performance as Eliot Ness -- in a role that is just wrong for the actor. Sean Connery -- while perfect in his short role, is not used enough. Ditto for Andy Garcia and Robert De Niro who just kind of blend with the background.
If the film gets anything right, it's the violence. The Untouchables is a deservedly violent film, with some nice action scenes. The action scenes however are over-sylized at times (typical De Palma), including a laughable shoot-out that steals from Potemkin. Add to that a soundtrack that makes ears bleed and it's overlength -- and you have a film that isn't very entertaining and barely passes the mark of being viewable.