Word: pacino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attention to the critics or the ads. This is one of the worst films ever released. And Justice for All attacks the evils of our judicial system with all the subtlety and flow of random hammer blows. Injustices are hurled at you for two hours--with Al Pacino donning the knight's armor and defending them...
Nothing goes right in this film except for Pacino--who has enough energy to handle eight cases, watch his partner go insane and take a fellow lawyer to bed. There are no sane judges, no rational lawyers, and no "proper" verdicts. There are, however, rapes--both heterosexual and homosexual--pornographic pillars, political corruption and nervous breakdowns. Yes, the innocent and contrite are abused and the evil go free. Only Pacino's performance saves And Justice for All from what must be the worst script Hollywood has ever produced...
...that Justice is completely devoid of heroism. Al Pacino stars in the film, playing an idealistic attorney who tries to buck the system. His is a difficult and tedious task. Pacino gets into so many screaming matches and moral dilemmas that he often seems to be acting all the roles in Dog Day Afternoon at once. As it happens, he acts them well, but not well enough to distract us from the enveloping silliness of the movie that surrounds...
Gregory Peck's Atticus is an especially hard act to follow, but Jewison found a superb successor in the person of Al Pacino. Pacino, who plays Arthur Kirkland, the film's do-good hero, first made the big time as Michael in The Godfather. He made it again as the run down hero of Serpico thee years ago, but there's been a drought since. Now comes Arthur Kirkland, who works perfectly for Pacino because he's a blend of Michael Corleone and Serpico. Like Corleone, Kirkland wants to do everything himself; like Serpico, he's a man fighting society...
Another movie starring Al Pacino as a latent gay gumshoe was being filmed on the streets of Manhattan, and everyone within shooting distance seemed to have something to say about it. New York gays who live in the Greenwich Village area where much of the shooting was taking place were especially upset. Some who managed to get hold of a script protested that Cruising would be an insulting film because it depicts homosexuals as violent and sex-obsessed. Marshaling forces along the fringes of the street scenes and staging protest marches through the Village, the gays demanded that Mayor Edward...