The Untouchables (1987)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 119m
Director: Brian de Palma
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia (his big break), Charles Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson
Synopsis:
A Treasury officer brings down Al Capone.
Review:
The best of the many remakings of successful TV series, and better than the director's Mission Impossible a decade later, this tense thriller manages to revisit the familiar territory of the American gangster and give it a spin all its own. It had something to do with a new slickness (De Palma works up to at least two majestic sequences, dissected and slowed-up to the fringe of absurdity) and the casting of popular stars as the good guys. Made with such consummate skill that one can overlook the various over-indulgences, indeed enjoy them, it is also scripted by Mamet without an ounce of fat.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 119m
Director: Brian de Palma
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia (his big break), Charles Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson
Synopsis:
A Treasury officer brings down Al Capone.
Review:
The best of the many remakings of successful TV series, and better than the director's Mission Impossible a decade later, this tense thriller manages to revisit the familiar territory of the American gangster and give it a spin all its own. It had something to do with a new slickness (De Palma works up to at least two majestic sequences, dissected and slowed-up to the fringe of absurdity) and the casting of popular stars as the good guys. Made with such consummate skill that one can overlook the various over-indulgences, indeed enjoy them, it is also scripted by Mamet without an ounce of fat.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 119m
Director: Brian de Palma
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia (his big break), Charles Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson
Synopsis:
A Treasury officer brings down Al Capone.
Review:
The best of the many remakings of successful TV series, and better than the director's Mission Impossible a decade later, this tense thriller manages to revisit the familiar territory of the American gangster and give it a spin all its own. It had something to do with a new slickness (De Palma works up to at least two majestic sequences, dissected and slowed-up to the fringe of absurdity) and the casting of popular stars as the good guys. Made with such consummate skill that one can overlook the various over-indulgences, indeed enjoy them, it is also scripted by Mamet without an ounce of fat.