A good gritty drama.

Rating: 7/10 (26 November 2013)

THE UNTOUCHABLES
I always avoided this film because it starred Kevin Costner. I am not a huge fan of his, but he has made some good movies.
This movie is about a federal agent who is hell bent on arresting and convicting the infamous Al Capone. Federal agent Eliot Ness gets help from a beat cop, a rookie and an accountant.
This drama is actually really good. I was expecting this to be a very slow film, but it wasn't. There were a lot of good action scenes and the gun fights were really good. In places this film was gritty and really sucked me in. It was interesting to see how the federal agent planned on convicting Al Capone, especially as Capone was a very dangerous man and was also bribing everyone. Eliot had a big problem trying to get anything to stick on him.
The effects were not too good. There was one scene where a guy was falling from a roof top, but this was awful. You could clearly see it was a fake background as he was falling. It reminded me of a comedy film. The only other thing I can complain about the effects. When a guy got shot in the face, you saw the blood on the wall behind him, but he clearly didn't have an entry wound in his head. They didn't even try and make it look real.
The acting was pretty good throughout. The film stars Kevin Costner in probably his best role I have seen him in. Other cast members were Sean Connery, Andy Garcia and Robert DeNiro. I thought this casting was perfect. I was not sure Sean Connery would be any good in this role either, but I have no complaints. He did a great job. The best performance for me though would be for Andy Garcia. I thought he did a brilliant job as the rookie.
This is a very good drama and very entertaining.
I will give this 7 out of 10.
"You just fulfilled the first rule of law enforcement: make sure when your shift is over you go home alive. Here endeth the lesson."
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