Fresh
A deeply satisfying and entertaining Prohibition gang-buster directed with a Tommy gun's rat-tat-tat.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
The Untouchables
What are you prepared to do?
1987 · 1h 59m · R
Crime, History, Thriller
Directed by
Brian De Palma
Overview
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
Director and cast
- Brian De Palma Director
- Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness
- Sean Connery as Jim Malone
- Robert De Niro as Al Capone
- Andy Garcia as Agent George Stone/Giuseppe Petri
- Charles Martin Smith as Oscar Wallace
- Richard Bradford as Police Chief Mike Dorsett
- Jack Kehoe Cast
- Brad Sullivan Cast
- Billy Drago Cast
- Patricia Clarkson Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The Untouchables could be the breakthrough movie for Kevin Costner, a folksy, Gary Cooperish actor who holds center stage as Eliot Ness.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
Where, under his stainless-steel incorruptibility, was Ness' gnawing flaw? To Mamet and De Palma, goodness and dullness seem inseparable.
Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
It's an action film without much personality or drive and without enough imaginative detail to make the action gripping or meaningful.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
It goes to that place that all films aspiring to greatness must attain: the country of myth, where all the figures must be larger and more vivid than life.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
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