A Film Like the Stage

Rating: 9/10 (20 August 2001)

That's what I like about it - it's a movie that works within the small physical scope and silence (soundtrack? what soundtrack?) of a stage play. Raw character soup at its best. (Pacino gives us the alphabet letters; Cazale the meat and veggies.) This is like Twelve Angry Men in character development, but with two brought forward, close to the lens. It is very sharp on them and just as fuzzy on the rest (love the head teller!).
But. Anyway. Why so many cops? Nothing else goin' on in Brooklyn '72?