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Undeniably, the movie starts well, can see at least that will "hook" to create a story that seeks good entertainment. But this, laudable, nothing but pure illusion. Soon the interest is being diluted and continuing debacle unstoppable and more pronounced, progressive, as can be seen in it a no capacity to surprise. Here the plot twists and daring simply do not exist. Everything is predictable. The device begins to take shape and not a single scene that does not emphasize what is already explicit or abandon the easy condescension to mainstream audiences. The succession of absurdities or poorly resolved and is unstoppable, uninterrupted.
I did not expect such a low level of credibility, and even overall quality of "The Untouchables ..." in view of the excellent reviews it has received from its distant opening. Even the fact that it was one of the biggest losers in the corresponding year's Academy Awards, was also supposed to "offering more": a more personal and original invoice, less beholden to the Hollywood filter (more attentive to the viewer popping and commercial performance to the actual content of the film) ... After I fell so much in my view as naive in this and other "untouchables" details, marked by the industry. It is just one more film from the projected prizes, each time, less prestigious Academy. Marketing dollars and, at the end of the tour, candid entertainment. Good technical bill, but can not say the same of their narrative aspect.
If you think you are witnessing a new installment of "Superman" or "Raiders of the Lost Ark" can support the continuous licensing tragicomic scene looking stroller with child "possessed", but presumably it is parody is not a historical reenactment. Here, more than at any other time, the seriousness should be assumed. Even a buffoonish De Niro seems to laugh to the role he plays. Connery is saved and it disappears in time.
His reading is rapid, although again, too explicit, so the story does not feel, only "be seen" and increasingly, seeps telefilm, history lightly, without any historical significance and few means of argument. Does the music? better without the soundtrack. Recreation is acceptable, good atmosphere, another (perhaps the only credible if you delete the Far West of the bridge ...) but is this enough to make your vision? True, not enough to bore you but at times it becomes outrageous, I do not know which is worse.
It is unfortunate to note how far is the De Palma original and avant-garde of "The Phantom of the Paradise" or the haunting "Obsession"; "Carrie" or "Dressed to Kill."
4/10
