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Summary: Great movie
Review: This movie was superb. It is about two men who rob a bank, but dont get out in time and the police come. Basicly the whole movie is the hostage takers negotiating with the police and planning their escape. Al Pacino looks very young in this, but still sounds the same. I would recomend this to people who liked the Negotiator and people who like Al Pacino.
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Summary: al pacino is hot!!!!!
Review: MY 2nd favorite al pacino film. right behind the godfather. he does an amazing job in this movie. great acting, very well written. this is definitely one of my all time favorites.
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Summary: need I say more? bravo Pacino!!
Review: Except that I would like to move to a country called Wyoming.This is one of the films I watch every couple of years because i like it so much.
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Summary: A Pacino Classic!
Review: For those who love Al Pacino this I would have to say is one of his better movies. Pacino's role as a misfit bank robber is outstanding. He plays the part so very well and the acting is dramatic at times while Pacino's ignorance of being a bank robber provides some needed humor to a rather serious situation. Based of a true story Pacino is key to bringing this movie the punch it needs. How he handles people in the movie, his gestures and actions are Pacino at his best. Combined with the movie Serpico, I would have to say these are the best films by Al Pacino from the 1970's before Scarface in 1980. Any true fan of Al Pacino should have this movie in their collection!
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Summary: Single greatest performance by an actor
Review: this is a little known movie that deserves far more attention coming during Pacino's glorious 70's where he released gem after gem of stunning performances, including serpico and the first two godfathers, was Dog Day afternoon. Loosely based on a real life bank robbery gone awry, literally EVERYTHING goes wrong, the look of sheer terror in Pacino's eyes as events spirally comically out of control is simply indescribable. Pacino's ability to finally lose control after so obviously trying to desperately hold it together throughout the movie, is breathtaking. He truely is the master at work....I can still hear the words.."ATTICA!! ATTICCAAA!!!"....this deserves to be in the top shelf of your DVD collection.
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Summary: Excellent movie shadowed by Cuckoo's Nest
Review: This acclaimed film would have probably been much more acclaimed had it not come out the same year as Milos Foreman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which raked in the 5 major academy awards. Dog Day Afternoon was nominated for six, but only received one (best original screenplay). Cuckoo's nest gave Jack Nicholson (the well-earned) academy award for best actor over Al Pacino. It also snatched best picture over it, and best director. While Cuckoo's Nest was a better movie, this one is still amazing. Creative and fun dialogue (despite the strong language) and although it's a true story, it had some surprising twists. Al Pacino was excellent. This film would probably be uncomfortable to the people sensitive to foul language, because it's R rating reflects pervasive strong language, and brief violence.
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Summary: Sidney Lumet Masterpiece
Review: No one who is an appreciator of fine acting should ever pass on a Sidney Lumet film. Never known for his cinematographic innovations, it is practically a truism that Lumet managed to draw out life-best performances from the many good and great actors he's had working for him. I've never done the math, but I'd almost bet that he sports more best lead and supporting Oscars than any other director in the history of film. His formula, if you can call it that, is turning up the heat on his characters to unbelievable pressure, but refusing to let them boil over. In Dog Day Afternoon, Sonny, a very humanly desperate bank robber, experiences what has to be the most exasperating run of bad luck in the history of bank robberies. Not only is he saddled with a klutz for a partner (also played and written with heart-torquing humanity), but they have to take hostages, there's no money in the bank, a fire starts in a garbage can, sheer chance causes a shopper across the street to notice something strange in the bank so the police are called. Bad enough so far, especially on a swelteringly unbearable day. Eventually the police arrive, who are in turn surrounded by a mob of people who are more supportive of the bank robbers than the police (this is, after all, 1972). The bank robbers even begin to befriend their hostages, until finally Sonny's secret lover shows up to tell the gathered media how Sonny was robbing the bank to pay to get him a sex change. Sonny is baffled, the police are baffled ... only the mob seems sure of anything on this improbably crazy day in New York. And what makes the movie most unbearably sad and funny at the same time is that it's all based on true events. Just as Lumet was able to pull off being limited to a single juryroom with 12 men in "Twelve Angry Men" without allowing the movie to become boring, the larger canvass of "Dog Day Afternoon" disguises the fact that this is basically a drama that takes place in a single room as well. Precisely as the characters don't rant and scream normally in a Lumet movie, so also is it the very staticness of plot, which feels like everyone is hold their breath waiting for something to happen, that makes it so nerve-tingling. The acting is great, but Pacino is impeccable. Eschewing the uncut machismo that de Niro has allowed himself to be molded by, here Pacino's tough-guy bank robber is more of an endlessly put-upon Job. Lumet has framed things so that it's as if Sonny was just going to run into a deli to get a sandwich, and ended up in the midst of some giant shoot-out. Never has a movie about sheer bad luck been so well-made. If there was ever a movie that cried, "Oh for god's sake" from beginning to end, "Dog Day Afternoon" is that movie, and it does so with inimitable style. A genuine classic and must-see Pacino.
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Summary: Exceptional Film by the master Lummet
Review: This film is a character study, and so some may find it boring. If you are simply looking for explosions, fast talking, quick gun fire, and lots of action then you probably will find this a bit dull. However, for anyone with an ounce of empathy (and i'm not suggesting that we should agree with the crook in the movie, but rather understand him) you will most likely really enjoy this film. Its a movie about people, mistakes, and love. Highly, highly reccomended!!
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Summary: Goo movie
Review: I am a hugh Pacino fan, so I had to buy for my collection. Good movie, it was funny, the best part was it is based on a true story. I may not be Pacio's best, but not a bad addition.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: This was my introduction to Al Pacino and his brilliant acting. And what an introduction. Dog Day Afternoon has made my personal top 10 list of the best movies of all time. The movie is completely riveting, you wouldn't want to leave your seat. The movie is also funny with humor delicately woven into the bank-robbery plot throughout the movie. A must see!
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