1930's style film making with an 1980's touch.Excellent!

Rating: 9/10 (1 December 2006)

What I like about this film is the way it takes on the atmosphere of a film actually produced in the 1930's,yet is injected with the grittiness and violence of modern day to show what things were really like in the era of Al Capone.This is what gives the film a unique appeal.Al Capone ruled Chicago,but he no doubt saw himself as king of the world,and Robert De Niro does an excellent job of bringing this across in his role as Capone.Also excellent is Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness,Andy Garcia as Stone,and Charles Martin Smith as Oscar Wallace.As excellent as all of these performances were,stealing the show from all of them is Sean Connery as Malone.It is in this film that Connery proved to us that he could be much more than that certain British super spy we all knew him as.His death scene is bar none the best I have ever seen in a film.Bar none!This is an excellent must see film!