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Plot: A desperate and crazed man, with the help of an accomplice, takes a local Brooklyn bank hostage with plans to rob it in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation.
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MCT:August 15, 2008another ground-breaking performance from al pacino, i was totally surprised at the ending that a story like this one would be true
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MCT:July 23, 2008Wow. Al Pacino completly blew me away. Director Sidnet Lumet did an amazing job. Nice twist at the end too!
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MCT:July 22, 2008
Al Pacino is great in this. Probably my favourite performance. Try to see it without reading the back of the DVD.
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MCT:July 22, 2008me encanta ver a Pacino actuando, debido a que yo creo que en la mayoria de sus peliculas ni siquiera actua, en esta si. La historia es acerca de los mas tontos pero carismaticos roba bancos y rehenes que jamas hayan existido, lol, es muy entretenida,, en realidad es un buen film, la direccion es fuerte, pero no es a mi parecer brillante como algunos dicen.
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MCT:July 10, 2008
Great first half, the plot was good. But towards the end it got so dragging. The movie's pacing should have been tightened a bit. Al Pacino gave a solid performance, at times simply brilliant!
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MCT:July 10, 2008
"Hey, Leon! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
"Ya know somethin' people? You're gonna be remembered the rest of your lives, for the day you were held up and kidnapped. We made history here." -
MCT:July 9, 2008
this is why people still pay al pacino to ruin their movies. i don't know how he did it, but it's like walken in the deer hunter: he turns in an amazing performance, and then bam. done.
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MCT:July 3, 2008
I love LOVE this movie. The tension & diasterous desperation of this movie begins & ends with Al's depiction of John Wojtowicz. Watching him trying to salvage the failed robbery attempt, you can just feel the downhill fatal end result oozing out of Pacino's character before it ever occurs. For me, this is the real start of Al's explosive charisma that's he's become famous for.
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MCT:July 2, 2008
Yet another great performance from Al Pacino. In this film, Al portrays a man named Sonny, who robs a bank with his friend Sal, played by John Cazale (whom you may recognize from The Godfather). Well, things don't go the way they were planned, and what you get is a great portrayal of a good-hearted man, who makes a mistake doing something for a lover. Definetly essential for any movie fan.
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MCT:June 25, 2008
An incredible movie. Each aspect is well done, and you can't help but hate the "good" guys in this one.
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MCT:June 24, 2008
20h55: Mate m'appelle pour me dire qu'il a loué [i]Dog Day Afternoon[/i]. Dix minutes plus tard, je file sur IMDB me renseigner sur le film.
[i]The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. 8 hours later, it was the hottest thing on live T.V. And it's all true.[/i]
5 secondes après, je meurs d'envie d'écouter le film.
5 heures plus tard, je le considère comme un grand classique du cinéma, une fois de plus signé Sidney Lumet.
Il n'y a pas à dire, il y a de ces réalisateurs qui sont des valeurs sures, du genre de ceux que vous savez dont vous risquez de ne jamais être complètement déçu. Lumet est l'un d'eux.
L'intrigue et les dialogues de [i]Dog Day Afternoon[/i] sont tous deux brillamment écrits par Frank Pierson, d'autant plus que le duo Pacino/Cazale est absolument sublime dans la peau de Sonny & Sal. L'ambiance de ce hold-up relatée à travers l'écran est digne de couper le souffle à n'importe quel spectateur et il n'en faut pas beaucoup pour devenir accroc aux mésaventures de nos deux jeunes braqueurs. À mon avis, la seule ombre au tableau constitue [spoiler]la révélation de l'homosexualité de Sonny. Comprenez bien que je suis très loin d'être homophobe, mais c'est juste qu'il me semble que ça a été très mal amené dans le script, à un point tel que ce drame psychologique s'est rapidement momentanément transformé en une risible comédie qui stéréotypait les phénomènes sociaux. [/spoiler]
Toutefois, comme c'est une histoire vraie, je suppose que c'était impossible de le modifier, mais c'aurait pu être travaillé à l'écran d'une manière plus réaliste et plus poignante. Néanmoins, [i]Dog Day Afternoon[/i] demeure l'un des films les plus importants de sa décennie. -
MCT:June 21, 2008
I really enjoy the circus show part. The somehow "unreasonable" events, Al Pacino and the crowd's reaction are hilarious to watch. The ending is shocking but somehow predictable.
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MCT:June 13, 2008
Amazing Movie. If You Want To Know Why I Like Al Pacino So Much Watch This Movie And Others Like It But I'm Really Mad That He Had To Play A Part Being Bi.
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MCT:June 7, 2008
"ATTICA! ATTICA!!!" - Sonny Wortzik
Dog Day Afternoon is a bank heist film with cops and guns... but not your typical average bank heist film with cops and guns. This one is brilliant. One of Al Pacino's best performances after The Godfather: Part 2. John Cazale is amazing, it's a shame he died so soon. He was an amazing actor. Dog Day Afternoon is worth renting, watch it. Really great film. -
MCT:June 3, 2008
Attica! Attica! Attica! hahaha That scene was so powerful that it almost made me cry. This is probably my favorite Pacino movie. His performances are always amazing but here I was unbelievably impressed by everything he did. He was so shocking, and gave the charater a like-a-ble feeling. Because even though what the guy was doing was definitely a crime, the development of it and the way Pacino gave it this accesibility made it possible for one to indentify oneself with him, understand what he was going through and even root for him. Not only did Pacino gave one of the best performances of his career, but the movie was also incredibly well-thought and well-done. The development of the characters, Sonny was so well-written, there were so many phases to him, he was obviously disturbed but was obviously a good person, it all makes it tangible for discussion. The plot was very well-written too, it was serious yet I couldn't help laughing at times because of the intentional irony. I really loved this movie, definitely one of my favorite and definitely a classic.
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MCT:June 1, 2008I watched this when I was very young, and I remember it was a powerful movie. (and finally watched it again, what a surprise after all these years)
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MCT:June 1, 2008
Al Pacino gives a first rate performance in this film. This movie is clearly Pacino?s show. This is a very well made film.
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MCT:May 29, 2008
This is such a great movie! I am a huge Al Pacino fan and this movie in my opinion is one of his best!
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MCT:May 19, 2008
Excellent movie! 4 stars all the way,this is one of Pacino's greatest performances as tension builds in a bank robbery gone terribly wrong,story is over the top and it's based on a true story! great acting from everyone especially Pacino,and great realism by director Sidney Lumet who Pacino also worked with in Serpico.a real classic!
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MCT:May 16, 2008
Brilliant - Al Pacino is captivating as Sonny, and John Cazale is wonderful as ever. Frantic and fast-paced but ultimately shocking, this is one of those they just don't make anymore...
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MCT:May 6, 2008
Terrific movie. I commend how well the director framed and paced the storyline of this movie. Aside from that, much applause goes to Al Pacino. I've always liked his expert style of acting and he gives the audience no less in this movie.
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MCT:May 2, 2008
General paranoia, anti-establishment and hippies conforming by not conforming - all of these themes seem to be popular in 1970's American cinema. Dog Day Afternoon is no different, but it stands out as a masterful piece of storytelling due to how you simply don't see a film like this made these days. The film plays out slowly and doesn't quickly patch over pieces of character development in order to move onto something more aesthetically pleasing. The (true) story is about one-man only, and thanks the to not-sympathetic but highly charismatic performance by Al Pacino, it is not boring as a result. Do me a favour and watch this, then rate it highly on IMDB before it is knocked off the top 250 list by the latest Tim Burton and Johnny Depp teenage goth bollocks.
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MCT:May 1, 2008
This movie took me about three watches to well and truely realise how much of a fantastic piece of art this is.
The story is well constructed, the acting is sublime especially the performance put in by Pacino and the directing by Lumet is probably the best he as ever accomplished.
I fell this is an absolute injustice in that it was shunned for both best picture and best actor at the academy awards in the year of release.
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Zekko568posted 477 days ago
