Good though not particularly brilliant

Rating: 7/10 (10 August 2014)

Once more the story of the Untouchables led by the federal agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) that defeated the gang lord Al Capone (Robert De Niro) at Chicago in 1930. Capone ruled most of the city through violations of the Prohibition law, smuggling, bootlegging and the bribery of policemen and authorities. These are the two characters who stand out in this movie leading the plot to a struggle which becomes personal between them. Besides these two another character stands out too: the honest policeman (Sean Connery) that joined the Untouchables and ends up murdered by the gang. Without being especially brilliant this is undoubtedly a good movie for it tells with enough visual realism the story of the gangster whom it was never possible to convict for his countless crimes and ended up convicted for tax evasion (a serious crime in USA) in eleven years in jail. Good history sequence, realistic violence scenes and good job of the acting performers. And nothing else except perhaps an anthology scene almost in the end: a baby pram rolling down a staircase at the railway station in the middle of a fusillade reminding us of the famous scene of the movie The Battleship Potemkin at the Odessa steps.