![]() The opening sequence, while interesting, is used over and over again later in the film-We get it, you blew most of your budget on that. First of all, the plot as other reviewers have mentioned, is sieve-like. There is nothing redeeming about his character or acting. ![]() You cannot believe for a single moment that he is either as menacing or as powerful as he claims. I finally rented this movie after avoiding it for a long time (mainly because of Travolta). I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema. All for what? A bus, a plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I don't think so. You can practically taste the brain matter. How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it'd be biggest story from Boston to Budapest! Ten hostages die, twenty, thirty bam bam, right after another, all caught in high-def, computer-enhanced, color corrected. "Meet our demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back of the head." Bam, splat! What, still no bus? Come on! How many innocent victims splattered across a window would it take to have the city reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976 there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no internet! Now fast forward to today, present time, same situation. Now what if in Dog Day, Sonny wanted to get away with it, REALLY wanted to get away with it? What if - now here's the tricky part - what if he started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. Arguably Pacino's best work, short of Scarface and Godfather Part 1, of course. Realism not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision. No, I'm talking about the lack of realism. No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as "prose". Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. ![]() ![]() Gabriel: You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. ![]()
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