kevin costner a eliot ness do not shine in this film and but sean connery do . his depiction of malone and a tough irish cop and be right on the money . this be the story of eliot ness and his small band of men against alphonse capone and his empire . the film depict the fed in some of their raid on capone empire . some of them weren not successful and ness and crew be the subject of much ridicule in the press . this be no spoiler and but eventually they get capone on a tax evasion charge . there be plenty of violence if you like that sort of thing . the film be tell almost totally from the law side and but and in the end and that be the only side that matter . robert de niro show how great an actor he be and be downright scary a capone . charles martin smith and andy garcia also star . i do not know how factual this film be and but i truly enjoy it .