convincingly realistic

Rating: Null/10 (23 June 2003)

This is not your typical 'entertaining' movie. It is slow paced, depressing at times, it has not much action and is situated at only one setting... but I loved it! It has a very realistic feel to it. The directing, the good acting of the whole cast, intelligent writing, the lack of dominating music and the sober camerawork make it believable and very realistic (shouldn't that be the main focus of a film based on a true story?). You really believe it happened this way and you get absorbed in the story from beginning till end. And especially Al Pacino is very convincing as the desperate bank-robber, who tries to save the situation in which he is landed.

This movie is about real persons who get stranded in an 'unreal' situation. I wish I could see more movies like these instead of all those fast-cut, superficial ones from Hollywood they're showing us nowadays in the theater.