What history?

Rating: Null/10 (15 October 2002)

It's really too bad "The Untouchables" is so good. I never get tired of watching it, even though I have read Eliot Ness' book and I know how things really happened, and this ain't it. The movie stretches the truth so far that Oliver Stone would be proud. As good an actor as he is, Robert De Niro is at least 20 years too old to play Al Capone. But he's great fun to watch anyway! Eliot Ness never confronted Al Capone on the front steps of Capone's hotel, and they never had a fistfight. Ness never threw Frank Nitti off a roof. There was never a cop named "Malone" who helped Ness. The group known as "The Untouchables" was made up of about 8 or 9 guys, not 4. Read the Ness book if you want the true story, but for pure entertainment, as long as you know it's all fantasy, "The Untouchables" fills the bill.