Dog Day Afternoon

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Summary: Why Pacino Is Considered So Talented.
Review: This movie, along with The Godfathers, Serpico and Scarface proves why Pacino is considered a great actor. As far as bank robbery films go, this is a classic. The humor and suspense are very well done here. Sidney Lumet's directing is perfect, Pacino is perfect. This is an original film, and I'm surprised it isn't referred to more often in film. This is a must have for any movie collector.

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Summary: Classic Al Pacino
Review: I've always liked this movie and at Amazon.com's price on this I had to get it on DVD...Seeing it for the first time on Widescreen was great, sound was good (as most DVD's are - not the best, but good considering when it was made)...If you haven't seen this movie before and like Pacino's other films then don't miss this - he is incredible in this one!

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Summary: One of Al Pacino's Best Films
Review: I would have to agree with everyone in here that this is one of Pacino's best films. I think that an idea for a bank robbery film is excellent. Also to my surprise this movie was based on a true story and that kind of surprised me a tiny bit because I thought to myself "how could anyone have lasted that long in a bank". Another good part to this movie was Sonny's (Pacino) intellegence through the movie for example the part where they were about to sound the alarm and he stopped them that was amazing and the way he was able to keep making deals with the police so he could have what he wanted. I thought that was fabulous. The only better Pacino movie that I have seen than this would have to be Godfather part 1.

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Summary: Pacino's best performance
Review: This has to be Al Pacino's best acting performance despite the fact he didn't win the Oscar for it (he lost out to Jack Nicholson for "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" in 1975). I almost felt sorry for both Sonny and Sal in this picture.

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Summary: A Classic Al Pacino Film
Review: The realism of Al Pacino role in Dog Day Afternoon is almost 3-D like. You actually feel that you are bank with the hostages or outside with crowding cheering for Sonny. Setting in the summertime makes excitement more tense and thrilling.

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Summary: An intense and gripping film
Review: There has not yet been an Al Pacino movie I have seen that was not brilliantly performed. Al Pacino delivers another oscar worthy performance as the loosery character Sonny who attempts a bank robbery, but fails. Al Pacino and John Cazale were a brilliant team in the Godfather series and are also brilliant here.

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Summary: Great crime drama.
Review: A very belivable and realistic story. Anyone who enjoys crime movies will enjoy this 70's classic flim. Lots of interesting facts about how to rob a bank and how not to. One of Al Pacino's greatest roles.

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Summary: Attica! Attica! Attica!
Review: I've never quite seen a movie that veers from comedy to tragedy so effortlessly as this one. It seems almost as if the downer ending is tacked on just to remind you that no matter how nice he is, Pacino is still a no-good crook. The film's tendencies aside, it is a very good study in bumbling crime (Pacino and his cohort Casale are obviously predecessors to the Buscemi-Stormare dastardly duo in FARGO) and very well-directed by an able Sidney Lumet. I'd say that the transsexual subplot feels tacked on, except this really happened! Well, we all know what they say about truth.

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Summary: Exhausted
Review: Al Pacino plays a bisexual bank robber in love with a man who needs a sex change. Al is in his twenties for this film, at the beginning of his career, around his first Godfather film. He is not the stoic mobster in this flick. He is sensitive, screwed up, and angry. I've never seen Pacino this vulnerable. Brooklyn is exploding with post-Vietnam trauma. The cops are stupid and clumsy. The neighborhood kids are high and bored. The new TV culture is on the street making the botched robbery a classic hostage study, a Stockholm Syndrome of American stupidity. The acting is so good; you swear you're watching a documentary. The fat wife is screaming. The idiot mother is crying. The gay lover is sprung from a mental hospital. America is at war with itself in 1972, panic in the streets. Sidney Lument has created a flawed masterpiece of suspense with the Oscar winning script by Frank Pierson. My two complaints: not sure why the wonderful character actor John Cazale (he died so young in real life) was considered so dangerous. The film was forty minutes too long with screaming phone conversations.

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Summary: ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE!
Review: This has got to be one of the greatest films ever. The story, the plot, the acting is just amazing. Al Pacino is an original in this film. Once you watch it once, you will want to watch it over and over again. Great movie to watch on a hot weekend, summer afternoon.