Am I The Only One Who Notices These Things?

Rating: 3/10 (11 February 2002)

I don't want to spend a lot of time on a full review of this movie, but there is one aspect of the film that I think bears inspection: Like a lot of movies today, the hero takes the moral highground by refusing to act in an unprincipled manner - only to throw away all his integrity at the end of the film. Apparently, behaving in an unprincipled and viscious manner is not only 'the Chicago way', but also the only way to elicit applause from an audience. As far as I'm concerned, the moral about-face of Eliott Ness in this picture destroys any value the film may have had otherwise.