What Could Have Been Untouchable

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2020)

The story tells a really cool tail from a really cool time, that just never seizes to reach its apex. Sean Connery was tremendous, Costner was well suited for his role as well. The Untouchables is a really good cast, but to me the line and whole disappointment of the film is you have the opportunity of DeNiro as Al Capone and he's almost an afterthought and made to look aloof and stupid at times. I would have liked the film to be 25 minutes longer with 20 minutes of time showing Capone's iron first rule of Chicago in the 1920's and 1930's. This could have helped severely strengthen the plot, and not just assumed people knew how big Capone was in 1930's Chicago.
Overall it's a good film, it receives an 8.3 from me just due to the missed opportunity of what could have been a signature performance with DeNiro as an icon in the Gangster world.