Realização:
Sidney LumetArgumento:
Frank R. PiersonCâmara:
Victor J. KemperElenco:
Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Lance Henriksen, Dominic Chianese, Chris Sarandon, Robert Costanzo, Tom Towles (mais)Streaming (2)
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Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart yet self-destructive Brooklyn tough whose plan to rob the local bank to fund his male lover's (Chris Sarandon) sex change goes absurdly wrong. Accompanied only by his doltish accomplice, Sal (John Cazale), Sonny realizes that all the money had been removed before his arrival, and decides to kidnap a handful of bank employees instead. As the lengthy August day drags on, Sonny and hordes of local police, led by Sergeant Moretti (Charles Durning), make little progress, and eventually Sonny's wife and lover are brought to the scene. (texto oficial do distribuidor)
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Grande atuação de Pacino num filme de assalto com um enredo banal. Ou será que eu, como espetador, devo ficar impressionado com a reviravolta em que um jovem de roupão marcha em cena como a sua mulher, cuja mudança de sexo faz Pacino fazer tudo isto? A sua verdadeira esposa e especialmente a sua mãe completam então o círculo bizarro de personagens que tornam o filme uma comédia não intencional. A representação de Brooklyn da época e das suas condições nos EUA é digna, mas como um drama humano este clássico não me cativou.
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Definitely one of the best bank robbery movies. Not only the drama and the game about the lives of the hostages and the two criminals, but also a bit of a portrait of the times (with allusions to the unlimited power of unions in the States at the time, the power of the media, the Attica massacre and the then despised homosexuality). A de-facto reconstruction of a real case, where it turns out that the best stories are written by life itself – in the first half there are many twists and turns and absurd situations, and with the arrival of the FBI agent, a psychological struggle begins, where you can cut the tension and the whole thing is watched in one breath. The young Al Pacino was already phenomenal at the time, and the master of supporting roles John Cazale with his unreadable expression ably seconded him. Sidney Lumet made several gems, this is one of them, and along with the likes of Arthur Penn, he is one of the most underrated filmmakers of the 1960s and 70s in my eyes.
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Sometimes everything goes wrong even before anything starts. How many times has a bank robbery been portrayed in a movie? No one can count the number of times. And is it possible, after all those attempts, to see it in a way that you won't even breathe from the suspense? Definitely – Sidney Lumet managed to turn the charismatic and demonic Al Pacino into an innocent looking boy, whose nerves can snap at any moment, and turned a bank robbery into a two-hour realistic spectacle, where the first gunshot almost halfway through the movie still scared me. An incredible spectacle, specific scenes of which Joel Schumacher probably watched over and over while shooting Phone Booth.
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An instruction video about how never under any circumstances to proceed during a bank robbery. Al Pacino excels in the main role, demonstrating all typical beginner’s mistakes. Mainly by completely outshining all the others with his performance. Which, in view of how interesting most characters are, is rather a shame; twice as much with respect to Cazale’s role.
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One Wednesday morning, Al Pacino woke up as a bank clerk whose world had crumbled apart. He said to himself “screw it” and he decided to rob his place of work and to exchange the money for cigars, rum and a hut made of straw to sleep in in Cuba. He got himself two accomplices: one flees before the action starts and you feel sad about the other one – even more than you feel sad about the movie. After a botched robbery, the two criminals remain closed in the bank along with several employees, the bank is surrounded by about five dozen cops and the social survey of year 1975 starts. And since the movie stars Al Pacino in the leading role, you can bet that you won’t be bored.
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