Giant meets giant

Rating: 10/10 (26 May 2000)

Finally, the two current best actors in the world meet each other. The confrontation De Niro - Pacino is wonderful: the scene in the highway coffee house is one of the most famous and exciting scenes in cinema history.
The plot line is very interesting as well: two guys, completely different on first sight, turn out to be not so different. Both of them have the same passion and lead the same life: doing what they do best, doing it their way. The whole movie deals with being alone and lonely. Each character is more or less alone and lonely: Pacino's wife, who can't bear the fact that her husband is always gone, Pacino's stepdaughter, who wants to kill herself because her father forsakes her, Eady (Amy Brenneman) who is very lonely,... In addition to that, director Mann shows a pretty realistic view of Los Angeles, accompanied by some great music, composed by U2 and Brian Eno.