The Untouchables (1987)

Time to get my mind off baseball...AGAIN.

Okay then.

That movie was pretty good. This will conclude a series of gangster movies. This starts a little slow, but the plot really picks up in the second half and gets pretty interesting.

The acting wasn't bad. Sean Connery did a pretty good job portraying Malone. He won an Academy Award for his role in the film. Kevin Costner was decent, although not terribly memorable, as well. Di Niro's portrayal of Al Capone wasn't bad but not really all that great. He actually didn't have as large a role as I would have expected.

Overall this is a pretty good movie that tells a pretty interesting story. It does a mediocre at best job sticking to what really happened and that cost it a few points. The movie has no profound themes or anything like that, but for an interesting movie that isn't terribly difficult to follow, this is very enjoyable.

The movie had a major flaw though. A little past the halfway point in the film Sean Connery's character is shot literally dozens of times with a tommy gun. In real life he would have been killed instantly. In the film he was able to crawl across his apartment and lie there until Kevin Costner showed up. Once Costner (and others) showed up they were able to have a brief conversation and Connery gave crucial information to Costner. Without this information there would be no evidence against Capone and the movie would not work. Since this information is so crucial and since the way in which it is given is so unrealistic, I will penalize the film severely for this inexcusable plot hole - the final score is 15 points lower than it would have otherwise been. I don't mind a plot hole as all movies have them, but this one was so bad I feel this penalty is warranted.

62.0
D-


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