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Mr. Untouchable

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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

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... “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 inside the heroin game. With the first hand testimony of the black Godfather himself, Nicky Barnes. This is an epic story of business, excess, greed and revenge. --© Magnolia Pictures [More]

Director: Marc Levin

Director: Marc Levin
Producer: Marc Levin, Mary-Jane Robinson, Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente
Composer: Hi-Tek
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

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Like much of the story of Harlem in the '70s, the truth is the least important part.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
12/19/07
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
Filmcritic.com

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 Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
11/14/07
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

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 Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
11/09/07
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press

One seriously confused documentary.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
11/06/07
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Variety
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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 Source: Tolucan Times | comment Comment
10/27/07
Tony Medley
Tony Medley
Tolucan Times

What emerges is a portrait of a complex man.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
10/26/07
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

Sometimes persuasive and sometimes sadly comical, but always fascinating.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
10/26/07
New York Magazine

Levin was clearly captivated by the sheer spectacle of Barnes' career.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
10/26/07
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It's not a pretty picture, but it sure is a compelling one.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
10/26/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

Mr. Untouchable is never dull.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
10/26/07
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

Less a dispassionate examination than a celebratory infomercial on its central character.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
10/26/07
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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[Director] Levin skillfully mixes the Barnes interviews with news clippings, 1970s street scenes and the recollections of Mr. Untouchable's former associates.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
10/26/07
Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson
Chicago Sun-Times
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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 Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
10/26/07
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
eFilmCritic.com

What is most intriguing in the film are the words, indeed the presence, of Barnes himself.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
10/25/07
Tim Cogshell
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

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 Source: AV Club | comment Comment
10/25/07
Nathan Rabin
Nathan Rabin
AV Club

It's fast and furious, and it proves that crime doesn't pay, unless you know how to do it right.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
10/25/07
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post

Nonjudgmental without being morally dense, the film makes human sense out of an inhuman example of addiction capitalism, '70s style.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
10/25/07
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

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 Source: Newsday | comment Comment
10/25/07
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday

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 Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
10/25/07
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
Metromix.com

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 Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/23/07
Michelle Orange
Michelle Orange
Village Voice
 
 
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