The Untouchables (1987)

Brian De Palma, the man who directed such hits as SCARFACE, CARLITO’S WAY, and CARRIE, brings us another hit movie of his in that of THE UNTOUCHABLES. Released in 1987 and set during the Prohibition days, The Untouchables is about four very different law men: Eliot Ness (KEVIN COSTNER), A federal agent/family man; Jim Malone (SEAN CONNERY), An old, Irish-American beat cop; Oscar Wallace (CHARLES MARTIN SMITH), a treasury agent accountant; and George Stone (ANDY GARCIA), an Italian, sharp-shooting police rookie, who all join forces to battle Chicago's notorious crime boss Al Capone (ROBERT DE NIRO) and his empire. I remember my Dad bought this movie on VHS when I was in middle school. I watched it with him for the first time and thought it was okay. Many years later, I started watching this movie again and began to like it and it became one of my favorite movies. There were some scenes that I thought were too extreme like a guy getting beaten to death with a baseball bat and another guy getting thrown off a roof and landing on a car. The music composed by Ennio Morricone, who also worked on one of my favorite horror films THE THING, was fantastic. I loved how the film started with the song “The Strength of the Righteous” and the scenes when The Untouchables stop a raid at the post office and on the U.S.-Canadian border with the song “The Untouchables Theme” playing in the background. The actors’ performances were fantastic, especially Connery, which won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1987. THE UNTOUCHABLES is one the best movies of the 1980's and one the greatest Gangster movies of all time. A+