Stupid, boring, overrated

Rating: Null/10 (4 July 2001)

This movie sucks, plain and simple. Every review written thus far says the same thing, "Pacino is brilliant," "great directing." If good acting and good directing was all it took to make a movie good, then I would agree with everyone. Unfortunately, I also like an interesting plot, something this movie sorely lacks. Dog Day is over 2 hours long. In less than 30 minutes, Sonny and Sal have already held up the bank and the cops are waiting outside. That's when I realized that I had over 90 minutes to watch Al Pacino yell at the cops outside while the cops yell back at him. BORING. It took great discipline to sit still for the whole thing. This movie is proof that not everything that happens in real life is interesting. Too bad the makers of Dog Day Afternoon didn't realize this.