i be not expect this movie to be this bad . with depalma and de niro and and what look to be a huge budget with a story that be already compelling enough in real life and there no reason to make a film this absent of quality . you can tell within the first ten minute of the movie that the score be go to ruin the movie . the music be either cliché ( smooth touch melody in every single last moment of vulnerability in the movie ) or action music that feel like it belong in homeward bound and not a crime movie . music be even put into place where it make absolutely no sense whatsoever . indeed and it set the tone for the movie itself and which be a tone of farce more than grit . this movie just reek of farce and from the accountant mow down people with a shotgun with the nerdy grin symbolize his transformation from mild mannered nerd to empower bad as to the completely arbitrary scene of robert deniro hit a guy with a baseball bat ( no back story and no plot movement and seemingly no reason for it to be in the movie whatsoever ) to sean connery get blast with seemingly dozen of machine gun bullet and bleed enough to have die three time over and and yet still have the power to gasp a few more word just a elliot ness get there before finally die . this movie be fill with enough corny commercial movie trick and clichés that it just can not be take seriously . this be not a bad thing if youre make a disney movie and but when youre make a crime drama and ( especially one base on real life ) realism be probably the way you want to go . this be not even to take into consideration the awful act throughout the movie . this actually may be why the movie so heavily rely on cheesy music . the actor performance be so weak that it require cheesy music to make them look good . kevin costner be just not a great actor and none of the support cast be exactly daniel day lewis . sean connery win an academy award for his performance somehow . i suppose his acting may have not be particularly bad and but his character seem so manufactured and out of step with reality that he simply couldn not be take seriously . maybe in a completely fictitious story it would have work and but again and not in a story base on real people and real event . if you want to see a farce that try to be serious and every movie cliché in the book ( this be no exaggeration and just look for them ) an out of place and overdone score and and substandard acting and then this be the movie for you . i somehow doubt and though and that the target audience for this movie be movie watcher who enjoy this type of film . take out the violence and this movie belong next to pete dragon on the movie shelf . it a disgrace to al capone and elliot ness both and to anyone who like good movie .