Word: costners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...highlight of the film is the characters of the two brothers. Tesich is always makes up for what he misses in plot with character and dialogue. And Kevin Costner and David Grant bring Tesich's script to life in a realistic and talented manner. One can actually believe, or at least hope, that if someone close were dying, one would act like these brothers...
...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...