a fine film, well worth watching

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 1999)

Pacino's brilliant performance is the highlight of the film, but the rest of the cast do a fine job too (Robert Loggia is convincing as Pacino's ineffectual boss). Some might see this film as being terribly violent but the violence is by no means gratuitous; it is there to emphasise the ugliness of the main protagonists. The only major criticism I have of this film is - why was Giorgio Moroder selected to compose the soundtrack? It is, without exception throughout the movie, ineffectual and inappropriate.