Brian_De_Palma's strikingly authentic re-creation of 1930s gangster films and Prohibition-era Chicago is dominated by the performance of Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner Sean_Connery as Jim Malone. Malone's mentorship of Eliot Ness (Kevin_Costner), guiding him from his initial, Dudley Do Right-esque altruism to a more grimly realistic law-enforcement agent, gives the film its emotional anchor. Costner's white-bread Ness and De Niro's grandiose Capone pale in comparison to the charismatic Connery. Ennio_Morricone's lush score and Stephen_H._Burum's classy, high-gloss cinematography may romanticize the oft-gruesome violence, but both are well-suited to the approach taken by screenwriter David_Mamet, who attempts to raise the pulp features from the original TV drama to high art. The film climaxes in a Union Station shoot-out that is De_Palma's stylish homage to the "Odessa steps" sequence in director Sergei_Eisenstein's seminal Battleship_Potemkin. Dan Jardine, Rovi

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