The End of Macho Violence

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 2018)

I just discovered this movie, many years later, too late really to give it a proper review. It belongs to another time, another place, the ultimate crash of macho violence, ending centuries of weaponry and warfare as the only purpose to human existence. We've now come to the point of extinction, and this endless screen obscenity is the perfect trailer for the Apocalypse we now face, thanks to this kind of thinking and "artistic" expression. Riding on the weight of its two stars, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, the movie uses them to personify the good and evil in the human spectrum, but Pacino and De Niro simply cancel each other out. After all, what memorable performances do we have from them which are not drenched in crime? Highly competent, and very talented obviously, neither is well used nor memorable in this overblown killing machine. I saw this on TCM and would recommend to TCM, and to any other distributor, that this particular movie be retired permanently -- it has contributed enough to the final demise of the human race.