The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]
by Brian De Palma
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Actor: Andy Garcia, Kevin Costner, Robert DeNiro, Sean ConneryDirector: Brian De Palma
Brand: Paramount
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Blu-ray Reviews of The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Details of the Blu-ray Special Collector's Edition being rereleased June 3rd, 2008
Summary: 4 Stars
The Blu-ray release of this movie has been unavailable for a while, but it's being rereleased. It appears to be exactly the same product, with the same special features and specs as before. No HD sound is listed in the announced specs, but it wasn't in the specs announced for the first Blu-ray release either, and was there anyway.
The Untouchables is a pure Hollywood spin on the true-life "Untouchables" led by Eliot Ness against Al Capone in the 1930s. Unlike anything in the real events or the TV series, in the movie, we're invited to approve Ness's progression from straight arrow to lawbreaker and (legally speaking) murderer, all for a cause we're invited to see as ultimately pointless (Prohibition, which really was pointless in that it utterly failed, that much is true).
Despite that gloomy angle, and some other gloomy or even silly made-up points I won't mention to avoid spoilers, the movie works very well as a beautifully produced, intensely presented cops and robbers tale in which good more or less triumphs over evil. In a nutshell, Ness (Kevin Costner) is charged with shutting down the organized crime that has grown up in response to Prohibition in Chicago. The corruption he faces runs through all levels of City Hall and the police. Sean Connery is especially good as the veteran incorruptible if not rule-bound cop who becomes Ness's right-hand man and advisor. They put together a small team of trustworthy souls who risk all to defend the right. Chief nemesis Capone is played by a somewhat "hammy" Robert DeNiro, who put on weight for the role and used a fat suit. (For a handy summary of the differences between the real events and the film (if that matters to you), see the Wikipedia article on the movie.)
The special features, same as before, are:
-- "The Script, The Cast" featurette (18:31)
-- "Production Stories" featurette (17:18)
-- "Reinventing the Genre" featurette (14:23)
-- "The Classic" featurette (5:39)
-- "The Men" featurette (5:26)
-- theatrical trailer in hi-def
The special features include some interesting points, not great but worth watching for fans. Still no commentaries.
The announced specs: 2.35:1 widescreen transfer (1080p), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, DTS-ES 6.1, subtitles in English, French and Spanish. Again, there is probably an HD sound option too, which in the previous release was English DTS-HD High Resolution 6.1 Matrixed Surround (1.5mpbs).
I haven't seen the Blu-ray version yet, but the image quality is widely reported to be very good, better than the standard DVD, with good detail and color, though some say there are artifacts visible from digital sharpening (and others deny it). The sound is also reportedly very good, clear, with the surround mix fairly good, given when the film was made (before the heyday of surround sound).
The rerelease was originally announced for May 20th, 2008, but appears to been postponed.
Description of The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]
The critics and public agree. Brian De Palma's The Untouchables is a must-see masterpiece - glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago... and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. This classic confrontation between good and evil and stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first.As noted critic Pauline Kael wrote, the 1987 box-office hit The Untouchables is "like an attempt to visualize the public's collective dream of Chicago gangsters." In other words, this lavish reworking of the vintage TV series is a rousing potboiler from a bygone era, so beautifully designed and photographed--and so craftily directed by Brian De Palma--that the historical reality of Prohibition-era Chicago could only pale in comparison. From a script by David Mamet, the movie pits four underdog heroes (the maverick lawmen known as the Untouchables) against a singular villain in Al Capone, played by Robert De Niro as a dapper caesar holding court (and a baseball bat) against any and all challengers. Kevin Costner is the naive federal agent Eliot Ness, whose lack of experience is tempered by the streetwise alliance of a seasoned Chicago cop (Sean Connery, in an Oscar-winning performance), a rookie marksman (Andy Garcia), and an accountant (Charles Martin Smith) who holds the key to Capone's potential downfall. The movie approaches greatness on the strength of its set pieces, such as the siege near the Canadian border, the venal ambush at Connery's apartment, and the train-station shootout partially modeled after the "Odessa steps" sequences of the Russian classic Battleship Potemkin. It's thrilling stuff, fueled by Ennio Morricone's dynamic score, but it's also manipulative and obvious. If you're inclined to be critical, the movie gives you reason to complain. If you'd rather sit back and enjoy a first-rate production with an all-star cast, The Untouchables may very well strike you as a classic. --Jeff Shannon
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