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4 Features Wednesday, June 10, 19B7 3 Review Gangster film g By STEVE COPPOCK JR. 5 tgk Stuff Reporter 1 " The problem with Brian De Palma's film The Untouchables, a remake of the 1950s television series, i isn't that it's bad. In fact, it's quite good. The pro- i blem is, it's not great. 1 With a scrccnplay by David Mamet and perfor- < mances by Kevin Costner, Robert DeNiro, Sean Connery and Charles Martin Smith, more is expected than what De Palma paints on the screen. This tommy gun of talent fires light entertainment. Set in Prohibition-era Chicago, The Untouchables begins with A1 Capone (DeNiro) telling a group of reporters, "I'm responding to the will of the people," i.e., selling booze. He says violence * - ^ * t?- ai * J t* u:-. isn't good lor ousiness, oui mat uucmi i siop ma men from killing a 10-year-old girl in a bombing. Eliot Ness (Costner) is a U.S. Treasury agent out to stop Capone, but his first bust is a bust. In despair, he encounters crusty beat cop Jimmy Malone (Connery), who impresses Ness as someone who knows the intricacies of the crime-ridden city. A l/\n? *?m*U rA/>rnitc OcPtlf WfllloPP r\tuii5 mill f lauu piviww i vvi uiiu t ? (Smith) and George Stone (Andy Garcia), they set off to topple the Capone empire. The production of the film is without fault. With cars, clothes and other props, including a broadcast of Amos and Andy, De Palma authentically duplicates the period, and Stephen Borum's excellent cinematography lets the camera soak up all ^ the details. Musically, The Untouchables attains Review Cop II copies the 01 Hv PATttlfK IRAN OnrP hp Kditor in Chief with Rosewood (. A streetwise cop leaves the con- and Taggart (Jol crete jungle of Detroit, heading Laurel and H? for the manicured lawns of worked with him A Beverly Hills to solve the He again convinc shooting of a close pal. the law to break Sounds like Eddie Murphy as he again uses Axel Foley in his 1984 hit thinking schticks comedy-adventure, Beverly Hills con, collect evid Cop. Also sounds like the in- with the criminal evitable sequel, Beverly Hills Cop A few subtle II. The new film is entertaining, made to anothei but only because it carbon-copies film: Sylvester S the style, plot, humor and action originally suppt of the original. Beverly Hills C Once again, a string of violence phy. His wife, is plaguing the peaceful Califor- villainess. Rosev w nia town of the super-rich. A from Stallone's group of proficient robbers, led apartment, and by a tough leggy blonde (Brigitte into a closet Rar Nielsen), is striking various firepower to sup jewelers and banks in Beverly Unfortunately Hills. similarity betwe The police department's Stallone in Cop bumbling by-the-book efforts to great in Rocky find out who's behind the crimes reduced himsi are fruitless. The mastermind is movies that are actually a respected socialite and ego trips. Murpl ^ German businessman (Jurgen ing the same in V Prochnow). Gosh, this all sounds so familiar, doesn't it? When Beverly Pant Rnunmil fCnnnu out Mnrnhv h; tries to bust the gang on his own prove. After sha but gets too close for comfort. A Nick Nolte and hit is ordered, and he's gunned previous filir down. established hims [ Now remember the first film's tour de force in t plot: criminals in California successful Cop. shoot an old friend of Foley, br- nothing to pr< inging him out of undercover mance borders work in Detroit to help the congratulatory, ridiculous Beerly Hills Police Beverly Hills Department solve the case and barely funny an J iL- 117^11 . - 1a gun uown inc gumy: wen, gucu;* wuirj uctaubc u 0 what? Foley is again working edy/action blent undercover when he hears of level ? the exac Bogomil's shooting, and he again the original. It tricks his boss into leaving but don't expe< Detroit to go to Beverly Hills. or laughs. Then j Double oo's P ^ 913 State St. ^ Parkland Plaza (USC, Cayca, W.Cola. Area) 794-0030 ALWAYS FREE DELIVERY I Early Bird Special 4pm-8pm DOUBLE DEAL I DOUBI (Buy Om Git On* Fin) I <B?Y On? 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Set in a train station, this scene will undoubtedly be studied for years and shows De Palma to be a director of merit. What could have been an assembly-line shootout becomes a slow motion dance of death ? i a. _ o : ??: * t-I. ^ wun a sngiu nou 10 aergei cisciisieui 5 /nc ouitleship Potemkin ? that even at reduced speed has tension and thrills. As for De Palma's penchant for gore, it is mostly missing, other than the expected bullet wounds. After all, this is a gangster film. The actors all seem suited for their characters. In a role that could have been a cardboard cutout of a character, Costner shows the human side of a hero. As with his other works, DeNiro gives his all as ? */\ *\/I A P Tl I 1 .1 O O M 1 /I /4 /\ fll V^apUilC. VUllliCi; 15 WU1IUCUUI <.? > CM I UIU UU5 teaching tricks to the new agents and serving as their den mother. Compared to Ishtar and Beverly Hills Cop II, The Untouchables is a good piece of entertainment. Yet it might have been better ? much better. j uage Kcinnoia) bmbhiv , tin Ashton), the irdy pair who -?^ i in the original. t ; them to the crooks. And and schemes to ; f. ence M : references are uig Oiai All 11113 W . ' itallone. He was ' >sed to star ^^B^^^fl9[9|^^^ni??h op before Murplays a /ood has a poster Cobra film in his * ~ ' he's also X^2I nbo with enough HflBHHBg vr jjjfcTj iply the Contras. [|T^ yy there another en Mnrnhv and II. Stallone was ', but has since ;lf to making hy is close to do- ? * ^ 1 this film. Canadian rocks Col Bryan Adams brought his Ca ' Hills Cop came Carolina Coliseum May 26. H< ad something to album, Into the Fire. iring the bill with T^nr* A trlr r/\t tr\ in ' . , i^aii n)MU/u 111 is, he hadn't ===== ielf. So he gave a lZh l1'yh Southern Womt >ve, his perfor- Serving The / on being self- Abortion Services ^ . & Counseling Cop II IS just ^ n 1.1 n d entertaining. 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