They were the best against Al Capone

Rating: 7/10 (29 June 2003)

I have seen several times this film, and what I like most of it is the acting of Robert De Niro as Al Capone. De Niro here is simply the arrogant Italian mafia man, the way he talks the way he argues, he is simply the best. Acting of Sean Connery and Andy Garcia also convinced me a lot, one represented a honest policeman able to do his job day by day, and the other (García) was the young one who tries to demonstrate himself and everyone that he can do everything well. All these actors surpassed the acting of Costner, who was also good, but not at the level of the others mentioned. The film shows that any mafia organization to survive has to have good links with the local government and its institutions. Al Capone was able to establish these links and only when they were broken his empire started to collapse.