This is a masterpiece?

Rating: 2/10 (4 March 2005)

I have tried to watch this movie and see the masterpiece potential. All I see is a foul mouthed, woman beating, drug dealing criminal who has the worst Cuban accent I have ever heard. This is one of Pacino's worst performances. Maybe it is a guy thing. I just don't see the value of this movie. True, it shows that for a while, being in this business has its high points, yet in the end your evil deeds will catch up with you. If this was the point the movie was supposed to convey to the audience, it didn't work. It seems to me most viewers became entranced by the way he climbed the "gangster corporate ladder" and the lavish lifestyle his crimes afforded him and completely ignored how it all ended.