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Untouchables, The - Special Edition [1987]

starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro
directed by: Brian De Palma

Release Date September 13, 2004
I can't understand all the praise for this film.Now I am a big fan of hard hitting American crime movies like Goodfellas,Mean Streets,Casino,American Gangster etc,but this one failed to move me.The music was intrusive and not ''of the time'',some of the outdoor sets looked like cardboard,and the main players were all stereotypes.Sean Connery as the old tired Irish cop mumbled his way through the film with a strange mid Atlantic Celtic(Scottish or Irish??) accent,and the guy who played the accountant just had to have a big pipe to smoke to scream NERD.Even he becomes a hero in the ambush at the Canadian border where they all miraculously turned in to expert horsemen.
All too obvious.And those silly episodes at Ness's home with his perfect ... Read More: