Serpico (1973)
Country: US
Technical: col 130m
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph
Synopsis:
When he is shot in the line of duty, an undercover cop looks back over his unique career combating organised crime and police corruption.
Review:
Long but honourable wallow in the anguish of a dedicated professional, whose work denies him the trust of fellow officers and the time for a loving relationship. Pacino is superb and Lumet films in his fast and cheap documentary style, though the music is sometimes intrusive. This was the zenith, or nadir, of the 70s realism in many ways typified by The French Connection: irritatingly strident in its determination to give a warts-and-all portrait of its hero, it is also absorbing.
Country: US
Technical: col 130m
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph
Synopsis:
When he is shot in the line of duty, an undercover cop looks back over his unique career combating organised crime and police corruption.
Review:
Long but honourable wallow in the anguish of a dedicated professional, whose work denies him the trust of fellow officers and the time for a loving relationship. Pacino is superb and Lumet films in his fast and cheap documentary style, though the music is sometimes intrusive. This was the zenith, or nadir, of the 70s realism in many ways typified by The French Connection: irritatingly strident in its determination to give a warts-and-all portrait of its hero, it is also absorbing.
Country: US
Technical: col 130m
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph
Synopsis:
When he is shot in the line of duty, an undercover cop looks back over his unique career combating organised crime and police corruption.
Review:
Long but honourable wallow in the anguish of a dedicated professional, whose work denies him the trust of fellow officers and the time for a loving relationship. Pacino is superb and Lumet films in his fast and cheap documentary style, though the music is sometimes intrusive. This was the zenith, or nadir, of the 70s realism in many ways typified by The French Connection: irritatingly strident in its determination to give a warts-and-all portrait of its hero, it is also absorbing.