Two great actors - Complementing each other

Rating: 9/10 (27 February 2011)

Well, when two of the greatest actors come together , it has to be something worth remembering. Donnie Brasco is a story about a FBI undercover agent Joe Pistone , who infiltrated the mafia family under the alias name "Donnie Brasco" , and steadily he realises that Donnie Brasco is what he wants to be , in order to keep his best friend "Lefty" alive .
As i have mentioned earlier that the movie shows the great chemistry between 2 great actors, Al Pacino and Johnny Depp, so we see superlative performances from Johnny Depp as "Donnie" and Al Pacino as "Lefty" . It was one of those rare occasion when, two great actors appear together and they stood out with complementing each other's performance. Al Pacino's scene in the car in the climax with he pointing a gun in his own head and at the end of the movie, where Joe(Depp) receives medal for his work, the expression on Johnny Depp's face, those were some examples. Though the movie belongs to these 2 actors, but one couldn't help but praise highly the performance of Michael Madsen as Sonny Black.
Mike Newell's Direction is just about brilliant and according. Sometime it becomes hard to maintain the pace of a movie, especially if it's mafia one, but Newell does a good job.
Thumbs up for this one.