Review – The Untouchables

Kevin Costner’s ever-so-earnest style of acting is ideally suited to the role of crusading G-man Eliot Ness. Of course the big screen adaptation, complete with screenplay by David Mamet, is a good deal more violent than the old TV series upon which it is loosely based. Highlights include an homage to Eisenstein’s famous “Odessa Steps” sequence and a baseball bat bludgeoning courtesy Robert DeNiro, who does an admirable job as Al Capone. If you’re looking for a sanctimonious law and order flick with plenty of macho guys and gore shots, I guess you could do worse. Mildly amusing