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Carlito's Way is a tale of a former hood trying to escape his former life. Al Pacino is Carlito Brigante, a high-level Puerto Rican drug dealer sprung from a three-decade jail sentence after only five years, thanks to a technicality and his sleazy, cocaine-addled lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn). Carlito renounces his previous ways and takes a job as the manager of a club that Kleinfeld has invested in, planning to save enough money so that he can eventually move to the Caribbean. But no
Jan 1, 1993 Wide
May 26, 1998
MCA Universal Home Video
All Critics (41) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (9) | DVD (26)
"Carlito's Way" is best watched as lively, colorful posturing and as a fine demonstration of this director's bravura visual style.
"Carlito's Way," like "Scarface," is first and last a character study, a portrait of a man who wants to be better than he is.
About halfway through, the overwhelming fact that the movie is a complete nothing becomes too much to ignore.
Pacino has his moments but for the most part he's surprisingly underwhelming. He's a great actor but even I can do a better Puerto Rican accent.
A competent and solidly unsurprising urban-underworld thriller: De Palma's imitation of a middle-drawer Sidney Lumet movie.
Top CriticA lengthy cat-and-mouse chase scene at the film's climax practically surpasses Hitchcock and even gives Scorsese's GoodFellas a run for its money.
As with so many De Palma films, Carlito's Way soon manifests as an essay on its own forms.
Pacino looks every inch a movie star, and De Palma provides a timely reminder of just how impoverished the Hollywood lexicon has become since the glory days of the '70s.
A great story told by a master filmmaker; sterling actors playing some truly fascinating characters; and a bunch of cinematic set-pieces that are worthy of repeat viewings.
Stronger in its suspense and action elements than in its dramatic moments.
The film is a redundancy and only those who have played Brian De Palma's other movies so much they've memorized the dialogue are going to be interested. Al Pacino portrays a reformed gangster trying to break away from his earlier lifestyle. Needless to sa
De Palma and Pacino tread some very familiar ground . . . But while it all feels a bit recycled at times, it still works
Not one of Pacino's best.
Charts the efforts of a Puerto Rican drug-dealer just released from prison to put the life of crime behind him
a tragic, boozy lament
Carlito: I don't invite this shit, it just comes to me. I run, it runs after me. Gotta be somewhere to hide. "He wanted out. He'd do anything to get there."On one hand I love Carlito's Way for the performances from Pacino and Penn, for De Palma's signature touch of violence, and for how the story progresses on the back
April 2, 2011
Super Reviewer
Luiz Guil-whatever-his-name-is-Pugface-lookin samoan... its like everything Pacino says he just repeats it: "yo Benny you gots ta pay me!!!" "yeah,Benny u gots ta pay him!"
May 13, 2008Super Reviewer
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