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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
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Like much of the story of Harlem in the '70s, the truth is the least important part. Full Review |
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The principle at issue may not be plain to everyone, but "to those people inside the system of values, that's totally acceptable." Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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One seriously confused documentary. Full Review |
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5/10 |
A 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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
What emerges is a portrait of a complex man. Full Review |
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Sometimes persuasive and sometimes sadly comical, but always fascinating. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Levin was clearly captivated by the sheer spectacle of Barnes' career. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It's not a pretty picture, but it sure is a compelling one. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Mr. Untouchable is never dull. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Less a dispassionate examination than a celebratory infomercial on its central character. Full Review |
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3/4 |
[Director] Levin skillfully mixes the Barnes interviews with news clippings, 1970s street scenes and the recollections of Mr. Untouchable's former associates. Full Review |
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B |
On 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. Full Review |
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What is most intriguing in the film are the words, indeed the presence, of Barnes himself. Full Review |
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B |
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. Full Review |
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It's fast and furious, and it proves that crime doesn't pay, unless you know how to do it right. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Nonjudgmental without being morally dense, the film makes human sense out of an inhuman example of addiction capitalism, '70s style. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Marc 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. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Isn'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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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