really liked De Niro, Costner , Garcia , Martin Smith, and Connery. Were Costner, Andy Garcia, or Martin Smith better in any movie? Costner gave the correct tune of righteous for Elliot Ness, without sh*tty sentimentalism or excess of gesture, so common in today's movies.
And I love a lot of scenes of it:
The movie is certainly more than entertainment. It's a epoch reconstruction without ostentation. It's a serious movie without the solemnity of movies like 'The Hours'. It's about hypocrisy of powerful people, and an ethical response to it, represented principally by Sean Connery, as Jim Malone. It has a place among the best works of De Palma, and among the best movies ever made.
And I love a lot of scenes of it:
- the beginning. First, Capone talking nice to the press. Right after that, his gangsters kill a little girl, and all his charm has completely vanished.
- the baseball bat scene, showing the real face of Capone.
- the killing of Jim Malone - the hommage to Potemkin - the recruitment of Andy Garcia's character
The movie is certainly more than entertainment. It's a epoch reconstruction without ostentation. It's a serious movie without the solemnity of movies like 'The Hours'. It's about hypocrisy of powerful people, and an ethical response to it, represented principally by Sean Connery, as Jim Malone. It has a place among the best works of De Palma, and among the best movies ever made.