The GREATEST period gangster film ever

Rating: Null/10 (4 October 2003)

Forget "Miller's Crossing", this is the greatest period gangster film ever. Brian De Palma has delivered a top notch film here. Everything in it is at the top of its game. The score is fantastic, as well is the writing.The acting is top notch. This film tells the tale of Al Capone , the vicious and sadistic gang lord of Chicago in the 1920's (played EXCELLENTLY by Robert De Niro). Capone runs everything and everyone in the city. No one will stand up to him. But one man has the courage. That man is Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner in the role he was born to play). Elliot Ness is portrayed as a man who believes in good and truth, and a man who wants to clean up a dirty town. While he is good of heart, he is naive about how to do it. He meets a man named Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery in the role that finally won him a much deserved Oscar). Malone , much like Ness, has a good heart but unlike Ness, he knows how to fight Capone. He schools Ness in the way to get Capone: shoot fast and shoot first! After Ness assembles a gang of men with morals like his called "The Untouchables" , the wage their righteous war on Capone and his henchman. Everything about this film is excellent. But the man who owned this film was Kevin Costner. He has had plenty of experience playing heroic good guys, but this is his performance. No one else seems right for this role. He plays Ness as an everyday man who decides to do some good in a bad town. Hats off to Andy Garcia, who plays one Of Ness' best friends George Stone, a straight arrow, loyal memeber of Ness' gang. Watch this film, you wont be disappionted.