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...boffo movies. O.K., so who's in the cast? Robert De Niro: his last hit was 1978's The Deer Hunter. Sean Connery: splendid actor, but the only time he's struck it rich lately was when he played 007 one more time. As for the leading man, Kevin Costner, his most memorable movie turn was as the corpse in The Big Chill. So there's no way this film is going to make back its $25 million tab. It will be Ishtar without the camel...
...much violence," murmurs Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) as he cleans out his desk at the end of The Untouchables...
Ness is even more radically redefined. Mamet says he sees him as a lone town tamer of Western legend. De Palma has evoked the name of John Ford to suggest the classic qualities he was aiming for. And Costner has something of the grave beauty Gary Cooper used to bring to these roles...
...Sean Connery had his hands full playing Malone, the broguish cop in The Untouchables, which finished shooting last week in Chicago. "It's pretty cumbersome," says Connery of the tommy gun, one of the weapons he carries when he teams up with Crime Buster Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner (Silverado). But the tommy gun is one of the few things the Brian De Palma movie has in common with the vintage TV series, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and featured a jailed Al Capone. In the film, for example, Capone, played by Robert De Niro, is still...
...CONSISTENT weakness in Tesich's films is his portrayal of women. They have no more character than the bicycle spokes, serving archetypical and sexual purposes without assuming any form themselves. The women in this film, such a Rae Dae Chong as Costner's lover, are trapped in Tesich's unliberated script...