Word: carlito
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Loews Fresh Pond. Fresh Pond Plaza. 661-2900. On Thursday, Nov. 18. "The Three Musketeers" at 12, 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, and 9:40. "My Life" at 11:30, 2, 4:55, 7:30 and 10:10. "Carlito's Way" at 12:55, 4, 7 and 9:55. "Flesh and Bone" at 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55 and 10:30. "Look Who's Talking Now" at 1:50, 4:20, 6:45 and 9:25. "Fearless" at 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45 and 10:20. "Malice...
Cinema: Al Pacino is a rehabbing gangster in Carlito...
This nice comic weirdness signals that business is not going to be conducted as usual. Carlito, like most reform-minded hoods, has a naive vision of the honest life. He hopes to buy into a car-rental agency. He also hopes to rekindle his old flame, Gail (Penelope Ann Miller), once a respectable chorus girl, now working topless in a go-go club...
...Carlito needs more than a good woman to avoid recidivism. He needs Pat O'Brien. You remember Pat O'Brien, Cagney's superego, trying to keep his wayward pal on a righteous path. What Carlito has instead is his friend and shyster lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn, in a terrific performance). He is in too far with the Mob, and he needs Carlito's muscular help in a cockamamie plan to avoid gangland's vengeance. It goes awry, naturally, and Carlito's subsequent flight brings out the best in De Palma -- breathless, bravura moviemaking, intricately designed, but playing like...
...though his boldness is sometimes impressive, in its calculated way there is also something overweening about it. There's almost no vulnerability about him, and that quality was what kept Cagney in a viewer's good graces. It is why Cagney's hoodlums seemed touched by tragedy, while Carlito seems touched only by technique. There is an irony here: an actor's bruising desire to transcend type is what prevents a very ambitious and otherwise skillful movie from transcending its genre...