Far-fetched, overwrought, and overacted

Rating: 1/10 (5 December 1999)

This movie is so ridiculous and Al Pacino is so busy screaming all the time, I am constantly stunned by the fact that people seem to like it.
The initial robbery requires a level of suspension of disbelief that could only be accomplished by being whacked on the head with a lead pipe - as does a shoot-out in downtown LA. So much of what we see the crooks do just doesn't happen in real life, and this is a movie that seems to be pushing "gritty realism," as opposed to, say, an Arnold Schwarzenegger flick. It is a shame that the bringing together of DeNiro and Pacino is wasted on this overwrought, over-loud, and over-long monstrosity.