Top 100 Movies: No. 80 - The Untouchables (1987)
Posted on November 9, 2007
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We end the week in 1920’s prohibition-era Chicago with The Untouchables. This flick features several stellar performances, but two stand about the rest - Sean Connery, who won an Oscar for his supporting role as one of the Untouchables, Jimmy Malone, and Robert De Niro as infamous crime boss and tax evader Al Capone.
Not to take anything away from Sean Connery (like I could anyway), but Robert De Niro is fantastic in this film. I forget that it is De Niro playing Capone when I watch this flick. Granted, he put on a lot of weight for the role, but it still takes a great actor to so totally consume and live as a character, especially in a biographical film, to make you forget who they are. Hey, Jack Nicholson was great as The Joker in Batman, a role for which he wore a lot of makeup and changed his appearance, but I never forget that it is Jack playing the ghoulish clown sociopath.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Kevin Costner, who gives a solid performance as Eliot Ness. For all the crap Costner gets now, he sure was in some great flicks in the mid-to-late 80’s and early 90’s.
Tags: al capone, batman, chicago, eliot ness, gangster, jack nicholson, kevin costner, list, prohibition, robert de niro, sean connery, the joker, the untouchables, top 100, top 100 movies
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We end the week in 1920’s prohibition-era Chicago with The Untouchables. This flick features several stellar performances, but two stand about the rest - Sean Connery, who won an Oscar for his supporting role as one of the Untouchables, Jimmy Malone,…
Now that’s a good movie! I have that one in my collection.
I really liked this movie too. It has been a while since I saw it, but there were definitely a lot of big names in it. I don’t understnad Kevin Costner’s bad wrap, did you see Mr. Brooks. That movie will really bring you back to Kevin Costner’s true ability.
I don’t really get it either. I have always enjoyed is work. I haven’t seen Mr. Brooks yet, but hope to soon.