Great film that didn't drag on

Rating: 9/10 (20 November 2014)

The Untouchables follows Federal Agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) and his team thats consists of an old school police officer (Sean Connery) a trainee cop (Andy Garcia) and a Banker (Charles Martin Smith) to help put Al Capone and his corruption away for good.
This film was great I was expecting Da Niro to steal the show with his Al Capone performance and was thinking I would be left not caring for main protagonists. Gratefully this wasn't the case at all. You really cared for each of the individual protagonists. Kevin Costner's performance was fantastic, you felt how much he cared but mostly how he just had enough of Al Capone's rain and corruption. Sean Connery was excellent as always, you can believe he's a old school type cop who's seen it all. I didn't realise till after he gets killed how much I cared for Charles Smith's character I think this is due to how well directed the film was, it was full of unexpected twists that kept to you glued to the screen. I needed a pee during the last 40 minutes of the film and I didn't go. I just couldn't stop watching, I had to see what happened next! The sound track was superb, it enhanced every scene it was used in. The directing was brilliant I loved it was done so well, I thought it was better than Scarface. The whole feel of the movie was brilliant and it didn't drag on like some movies do (especially in this crime/drama genre), it was a nice length. This makes the film even more re-watchable which is another positive. One thing that stops it being a ten is I didn't see enough from Al Capone you got a few snippets but you never felt how feared he was by everyone not only who was around him but the people in Chicago in general more of that would of made it even better for me. Overall I really liked this film and thought it was brilliantly done, I will be watching it again for sure.