killer flick, in spite of pacino

Rating: 9/10 (8 April 2003)

I love this movie. DeNiro's Neil McCaulley is so cool and crisp. Tom Noonan is great. The movie has tons of style and the best shoot out scene of all time. Sizemore and Kilmer are excellent as always. As are Diane Verona and Ashley Judd. Watching McCaulley's crew work was one of the great cinematic pleasures of the 90's. As Lt. Hanna says, "Their M.O. is that they're good."(in Pacino's sole bright moment) The only rough spot is Pacino, who hasn't been able to act his way out of a wet paper bag is almost twenty years. The sad thing is that all the lamest dialogue got handed to him as well.