Good, but not quite a classic.

Rating: 7/10 (7 August 2003)

Chicago,1930. Treasury Agent Elliot Ness forms a small team of uncorruptable or 'untouchable' officers to combat Al Capone's criminal activities.
This film was a huge hit in its day and is notable for several things. It made a star of Kevin Costner, won Sean Connery an Academy Award and raised the screen profile of Andy Garcia. In itself it is very stylishly mounted and directed by Brian De Palma, is well acted all round and keeps moving well enough to hold the attention. While it pays homage to a bygone era of film it contains the modern trimmings of bloody violence and bad language (though neither are excessive).
It perhaps is not quite the classic that some would have us believe, but it is rollicking entertainment while it is on, and lingers in the mind afterwards.