Better-than-average cop-drama, but vastly overrated

Rating: 6/10 (28 October 2014)

Better-than-average cop-drama. That's about the best one can say about this movie. For a crime drama, it is not very gritty and is filled with Hollywood clichés.
Reasonably interesting but could have been great. However, there are so many Hollywoodisms and glamourisations it feels quite superficial.
The weak script and formulaic movie-for-the-masses directing by Brian De Palma are compounded by the usual unconvincing performance from Kevin Costner. He alternates between dead boring and overly gung ho here.
Sean Connery is almost equally flat and unconvincing.
In fact, there's hardly a convincing and/or engaging performance to be found here. The only good one comes from Robert De Niro who is charming and suitably mean and scary as Al Capone.
Vastly overrated.