TOTAL asinine fabrication

Rating: 2/10 (21 August 2012)

There are three things true that are depicted in the movie. There really was an Eliot Ness. There really was an Al Capone. There really is a Chicago and it is still as corrupt as ever. If you read Eliot Ness's autobiography, and it can be found on the used book web sites, you find that during his entire time in Chicago as a Federal agent he fired a weapon (a pistol) once. Into a barrel of cotton. To make a ballistics test. His time there went from ho-hum to frustration. After Capone went to prison, and the Chicago mayor and police force had to find other crooks to sell their services to, Ness went to the hills of Kentucky to hunt for moonshine stills. All the cutesy scenarios in the move and the courageous shootouts are Hollywood mule muffens. Cheap entertainment. And a sick attempt to create history that never happened.