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Mr. Untouchable (2007)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:17
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: The sheer presence of the arrogant and charismatic Nicky Barnes makes Mr. Untouchable a compelling movie experience.
Theatrical Release:Oct 26, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: “If you strike the King you better kill him or he’ll move on you and take your ass out”. This is the true-life story of a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord. MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes you deep... [More]
Director: Marc Levin
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Reviews for Mr. Untouchable
The principle at issue may not be plain to everyone, but "to those people inside the system of values, that's totally acceptable."
11/14/07
Does the movie glorify Barnes and his nefarious profession? Probably, but show me a movie about the drug trade that doesn't hook us first with guts and glamour before the moralizing fall.
11/09/07
Top CriticOne seriously confused documentary.
11/06/07
Top CriticA lackluster documentary that lionizes this creep while ignoring the damage that his distribution of drugs did to society and the many brutal murders he ordered.
10/27/07
What emerges is a portrait of a complex man.
10/26/07
Top CriticSometimes persuasive and sometimes sadly comical, but always fascinating.
10/26/07
Top CriticLevin was clearly captivated by the sheer spectacle of Barnes' career.
10/26/07
It's not a pretty picture, but it sure is a compelling one.
10/26/07
Top CriticMr. Untouchable is never dull.
10/26/07
Top CriticLess a dispassionate examination than a celebratory infomercial on its central character.
10/26/07
Top Critic[Director] Levin skillfully mixes the Barnes interviews with news clippings, 1970s street scenes and the recollections of Mr. Untouchable's former associates.
10/26/07
Top CriticOn its own, Mr. Untouchable is a solid education on a specific period of time reigned over by a demon who willingly spread sickness to line his pockets.
10/26/07
What is most intriguing in the film are the words, indeed the presence, of Barnes himself.
10/25/07
Legendary '70s heroin kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes is filmed like a deposed king in exile in Mr. Untouchable, Marc Levin's slick look at one of New York's most notorious criminal masterminds.
10/25/07
It's fast and furious, and it proves that crime doesn't pay, unless you know how to do it right.
10/25/07
Top CriticNonjudgmental without being morally dense, the film makes human sense out of an inhuman example of addiction capitalism, '70s style.
10/25/07
Top CriticMarc Levin, whose last documentary, Protocols of Zion, was a gutsy examination of post-9/11 anti-Semitism, has an even tougher job on his hands with Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes: making the man interesting.
10/25/07
Top CriticIsn't an inside look at the men who ruled a city but just an excuse to collect 'Superfly,' 'Sexual Healing' and 'Let's Stay Together' on a soundtrack.
10/25/07
A fascinating first-person account of drug kingpin and ruthless gangster Nicky Barnes, whose outrageous story of rise, rule, rage, and revenge requires no such stylistic filler.
10/23/07
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