Vincent Hanna cocaine user

Rating: 10/10 (13 February 2006)

When this movie was originally shot there were scenes where Det. Hanna (Pacino) was doing cocaine. When he was outside the club about to go in to meet Tone Loc (Albert's brother) the bouncer outside gives him a vial, on the house, and he takes a snort of if as he goes in. There are several times throughout the movie were it seems like Pacino is over acting. This is because he was supposed to be wired. However, Mann decided the movie was intense enough without this story line and cut all of the scenes out. I spoke with someone who went to a program where Michael Mann spoke about movie making and mentioned this. Also, if you get a hold of some of the early drafts of the screenplay you can read these scenes in them.