Pacino's magnificence

Rating: Null/10 (12 September 2006)

Pacino is a pugnacious,severe,magnetic,bold cop that invests all in his professional life and works madly.His deathly road to nothingness is somehow paired with his burdensome trip to Alaska.This is the core of the movie:how a man is cracked at a blow by an inexorable,dumbfounding,inescapable bugaboo."Will Dormer" gets unsteady and frightened.
"Will Dormer" decomposes quickly,unspeakably,ominously,unjustly.He gets more and more exhausted and tired.Nonetheless,he carries through the case he came to solve.
The magnificent,manlike,unrivaled Pacino makes a significant,matchless intaglio with his expert,intense,rich,lofty,congruous performance.Despite the utterly abhorrent script (psychologically null,and morally schmaltz),Pacino turns this movie,by his insets of gusto, into a jewel,a priceless one;I wish it the fate of 'G' Men (1935),Each Dawn I Die (1939),The Last Gangster (1937).It will be an ecstasy for the tasters.Pacino performs mightily;he is past compare.His lambent face is expressive.You read the amounting tiredness and Titubation;you witness "Will Dormer" 's agony and expiation.
The movie's pulchritude comes from the director's taste for contemplation.
The character played by Pacino is built by the actor alone,by his keenness and manhood;the script offers nothing but a sense of damnation,and provides conventions and ethical lessons instead of psychology.The debacle brought by his stinger younger mate that will be the death of him strikes Pacino suddenly,seemingly out of the blue.(The moral lesson of integrity given by Pacino in the end is maybe well-meant but nauseous;we didn't need this,it was a bad idea to give us a lecture.)
Pacino looks great in his leather jacket.He is always amazing as a cop (Serpico in the '70s,Cruising and Sea of Love in the '80s,Heat in the '90s:unfortunately,they're not so many!).He shows ardor,but is also quite restrained,within the Pacino standards of course.
In the last decade,Pacino made,besides many insignificant cameos,some outstanding roles:(1)Richard III in Looking for Richard;(2)Lefty Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco;(3)Lowell Bergman in The Insider;(4)the CIA Agent in The Recruit.