Great sets, great music, great actors.. but that's all

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2000)

After having paid a lot of tributes to Hitchcocks work, it seems he has done the same with the classic gangster movie. 'The Untouchables', does, unfortunately, consist of a lot of cliches: the old and wise cop (Connery), the ultimate gangster (of course Al Capone, played by DeNiro) and the dull businessman (Smith). The acting is good. But although the acting is good, I didn't like to watch the actors at times, because they were playing rather gangster movie prototypes than human beings that we don't 'know' yet. That wouldn't be too bad if De Palma had been original about the plot, but he hasn't.
But, don't get me wrong, this movie is still big fun! On the visual side, this movie is, of course, great, as we are used to see from Brian De Palma. In contribution of that, the movie is blessed with another fine and pulsating score from Ennio Morricone (however, at times too emphatically). Eight stars out of ten for 'The Untouchables'.