A feel good Gangster Movie that evades the typical Gangster Movies

Rating: 10/10 (11 August 2008)

In the UNTOUCHABLES, We see a whole new perspective on the traditional gangster mob flicks like THE GODFATHER, GOODFELLAS, THE DEPARTED and SCARFACE where the Gangsters are the "Good Guys". Here we see an idealistic Federal agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) struggling to defeat his enemy Al Capone (played by a temperamentally dangerous performance by Robert De Niro) with alleged criminal activities that can't be penetrated easily.
Enter a Veteran Police officer Malone (Sean Connery who won an Academy Award for this film), Newly Recruited Agent Stone (Andy Garcia), and an Accountant (Charles Martin Smith) and the whole criminal empire goes bananas. Though Capone strikes back at them even with the help of shady Cops and Hit men, but in the end Good triumphs over evil especially when they think that "You're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge". Observe while Capone says it many times, at first he's not affected and says it arrogantly but in the long run he's becoming more outraged and frustrated of his fate.
Some have criticized the film by being cheesy and a bit light especially with the music score, but that's the way the film was intended to be. It is a big innovative turn for Gangster films where you see the plot, and the characters are dark and somewhat irredeemable, sometimes you want to see a film that has a feel-good experience and this is one of those films that you would walk away from the theater with a smile. It is the "300" for Gangster movies.
Here endeth the review.