disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (12 October 2013)

On paper, the Untouchables seems to be a great film. With an all-star cast including Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, AND mobster movie legend himself, Robert DeNiro, how could a movie like this possibly be bad? Well unfortunately, I was wrong. There were several things about this movie that just made it intolerable. The acting was very flat, it was hard to believe how cringe-worthy and cliché the dialogue was from start to finish. In addition, a lot of scenes in the movie just didn't make any sense. For example, the fact that Ness would just change his opinion about the geeky accountant in an instant and hand him a gun to go on their first "bust" was completely unbelievable. In addition, Malone had an entire tommy-gun clip emptied on him, yet he stays alive for long enough to crawl into his house and then still be alive for what seems like a good while later to tell Ness about the Capone's accountant. The music was unbearable, I felt like I was watching a 20's silent film with color and dialogue at points when the action music played. Overall, I expected a lot more out of this movie and it unfortunately failed in many aspects that it really shouldn't have.