Grimy Brooklyn adds up to a dated film

Rating: 6/10 (14 April 2020)

I will be honest.
The premise of a bank robbery going wrong and the robbers becoming 'celebrities' probably would have worked nowadays but this Sidney Lumet directed film from 1975 has aged.
Not only in terms of its lead (Al Pacino as Sonny) but in terms of grimy Brooklyn, the technology of the outside news broadcast...I could go on.
The film has elements of black comedy following the hapless exploits of the robbers cum hostage negotiators.
Somehow Lumet gained an Oscar nomination for his direction where as today the film would struggle to be a B picture.
I became bored if I am honest by the monotony of the screenplay.
I really had no compunction about what happened to the leads Sonny and Sal (Pacino and John Cazale).