Eliot Ness and his small band of Untouchables.

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2016)

the Real life story of Eliot Ness reads like a adventure novel that ends on a tragic note.
But it makes for a great movie. now granted Hollywood being Hollywood changed things around and added or subtracted many elements of the Real Untouchables. to start off with Eliot Ness became a prohibition agent because it was the law of the land. and he hated the wide spread corruption to him the law was the law a good law or a bad law to him it didn't matter it needed enforcing. When Ness was given the assignment to bring down Capone . he mentioned a idea of a flying squad composed of nine honest men. Ness never wanted to head it up. but the situation in Chicago was so desperate. that they never gave it any chance of success and appointed Ness the leader. and right away Ness and his men went to work attacking Capone from the streets while the Government worked at getting Capone from the business level of not paying taxes Both teams did their job very well. and Ness and his boys stole the headlines when one paper called them THE UNTOUCHABLES .
When Hollywood decided to remake the classic Robert Stack Series . they went with a script that took all the truth out of it. Gone were the historical facts . There was never a older Chicago cop who mentored Ness and the other Untouchables. The Role of James Malone wonderfully played by Sean Connery is a work of fiction. And Connery steals the show as the street cop with a heart of gold turned Federal agent. The entire idea of going to the academy to get a young rookie to help would have been laughed at in the 30s. George Stone would have been seen as too big of a risk for dangerous work like this. But Depalma and Connery and Costner and Gracia make it work. And third the Governemnt never sent an accountant to Chicago to work at it from a street level. but Charles Martin Smith makes his Oscar Wallace work so well that you don't mind the historical mistake. And no member of the Untouchables was ever killed by Capone . Only one member of the Untouchables outside circle was killed as a warning. Frank Basile who was the driver for Eliot Ness and helped the Untouchables in their work that Paul Robsky one of the last Untouchables called Basile a unofficial Untouchable.
But still all the inaccurate information aside. The Untouchables is as great as a epic movie that you could ever hope to find. Kevin Costner plays a very human and very moral man pushed into a unthinkable situation in which he must stop the beast by working outside the law. Sean Connery steals the Movie . his James Malone is the honest beat cop with a heart of gold who is simply after 20 years on the beat trying to stay alive. Malone is a widower. He knows too much and he keeps his mouth shut. Because saying anything to the wrong people could get him killed at a second's notice. It's Ness who gives him the courage to go out and stop the monster that's ruling Chicago.
Robert De niro is in fine form in one of his greatest roles Ever. Mention Deniro and chances are the untouchables is the first second or third movie mentioned. And for good reason as well He oozes evil and madness as Capone. As well as Charm. the real life Capone was charming and Deniro shows us to how charming he could be.
Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith fill out the rest of the Untouchables. and do grand work. The Story is solid and the climatic shoot out in the Train Station is a work of art. Brian De palma has every right to be proud of that scene. Its not overly long but its a complicated scene which must have been a nightmare to film. But it holds together so well.
Historical real life aside. The Untouchables is as great as it gets .My only hope is that next time they decide to do one closer to the truth. but until then I'll enjoy this one.