an over hyped movie

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2007)

after i heard a lot about this movie, i decided to buy the DVD recently, i and i was shocked on how bad this movie is, indeed this movie is filled with mistakes and errors that are unbelievably left.
the dialogue is so weak, the scenes are not linked properly, and the way the story develops is horrible, also the way the charterers develop is inconsistent during the whole movie, we see changing personalities of all the actors in this movie, it feels like a compilation of small different scenes that the director wished he ever included in a movie.
Al Pacino is at his worst, he yells and shouts with meaningless scripts all over the movie, everyone around him just changes according to the scene, first we see the young rational sister who turns into a crazy whore by the mid of the movie, and we see Tony's enemies' assistants turning to his side without any reason! the scene where tony sees his sister for the first time in five years, it wasn't acted very well and didn't give any space for the characters to develop, after a couple of scenes we see Tony's sister yelling and shouting at him because he always interferes with her life!! how come?! they haven't seen each other for five years! another scene when Tony's sister falls for Manny, it was very silly watching how they suddenly fell in love! that all leads to the end where tony kills Manny, and his sister runs crying over his dead body telling tony that they just got married!, that scene was weak too.
one stupid mistake in the movie appears in the end where Tony is first shot by his sister in the leg, but after 10 seconds he runs out of his office to fight like he wasn't shot at all!! and do we have to believe that Alex would come all the way to Tony to kill him after he was exposed in the UN!! this movie is a joke, and shows how violence and images have taken over the real art of movie making lately, this movie should have been forgotten long time ago to where it belongs in the cheesy 80's movie era