an acting tour de force for Al Pacino
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07/28/07
Serpico (1973)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 36 Fresh: 34 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Synopsis: Shot on location on the crime-filled streets of New York City, Sidney Lumet's unflinching adaptation of Peter Maas's best-selling book is a rousing portrait of courage in the face of insidious corruption. This is a motif that Lumet would continue to mine in later films, including 1981's... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Barbara Eda-Young
Director: Sidney Lumet
Screenwriter: Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler
Producer: Martin Bregman
Composer: Mikis Theodorakis
Screenwriter: Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler
Producer: Martin Bregman
Composer: Mikis Theodorakis
Reviews
Top Critic
Imbued with mythic and even religious dimensions, Al Pacino's resourceful, Oscar-nominated performance takes Lumet's quinessential 1970s New York film beyond the realm of a cop-corruption drama.
08/09/08
Al Pacino delivers a powerful performance in this compelling biopic of a cop and a city's police force.
04/09/08
Top Critic
Sidney Lumet's direction adeptly combines gritty action and thought-provoking comment.
04/09/08
Top Critic
Exibindo segurança e intensa presença cênica, Pacino demonstra inteligência ao criar um imenso contraste entre a futura angústia de Serpico e a maneira irreverente e jovial com que este surge nas cenas logo após formar-se como agente da Lei.
01/16/08
When all is said and done, Pacino is the riveting presence that makes the movie work and it is difficult to imagine any other actor in the part.
03/01/07
A virtuoso performance by Al Pacino and some expert location work by Sidney Lumet add up to a tour de force genre piece that transcends the supercop conventions to create a moving, engrossing portrait of Frank Serpico.
03/01/07
Another problem, these days, is Pacino's characterisation; he seems at times more like a misplaced hippy than a plainclothes cop.
06/24/06
One of the best films of our time, and our grandkids' time. "Serpico" is pure Pacino, powerful as hell.
10/22/05
The movie is compelling even if the scripters have taken liberties with the facts (and book) upon which it is based.
06/26/05
A quintessential New York director made this quintessential New York movie in 1973, with Pacino at his best as an honest cop who turns on his crooked colleagues.
08/05/04
Lumet's biopic of Frank Serpico, the virtuous cop who exposed a network of graft in the NYPD, feels depressingly relevant.
08/03/04
A true story about an honest NYC police officer dealing with police corruption.
02/08/04
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