Pacino Deserved Better

Rating: 5/10 (19 May 2006)

Al Pacino is one of those few actors who you willing to by an admission ticket to watch just sit in one place for two hours. He can be in a horrible movie and make it worth watching. He has done this before in Gigli and The Godfather part 3, and he does it again in Two For the Money. The rest of the film around Pacino is horrible, the other performances particularly in Rene Russo as his wife are just cringe inducing. The script is heavy handed with completely flat characters and dialogue, and completely pointless scenes and characters. The direction is also heavy handed. Every scene is marked, scared with this young directors steal hand. Even with all the wreckage mentioned above Pacino almost saves it. He gives his character life even if the one's around him are lacking there of. He makes the movie almost worth watching. See it for free if you can.