Goody-two-shoes

Rating: 2/10 (19 September 2005)

It's very simple - if you like goody-two-shoes films and you're not into anything remotely complex you'll find this one excellent. It's all black and white here with no Grey areas. I would say its very 'simple' not wanting to use dumb. It has an uncompromisable good guy called Elliot Ness (played by very irritating all American good guy Kevin Costner) chasing a bad guy called Al Capone. There's no real life characters, ones of discussable moral qualities, there's so much fictitious moral in the good characters that you'll wish the ending was different and they where all put up against a wall and Al Capone or Frank Nitti shot the s**t out of them, especially Ness. Mind you, generally I'm not the type to boo at the good guy but this movie is so fake you just can't help but feel really really disappointed at the end when you see that Ness doesn't get his brain blown. To sum up - you know De Palma, you know Costner and thats what you have to expect. Forget about De Niro and Conory, I say its a shame they showed their faces in this crap.