Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 10
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Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3
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Three A-list screenwriters -- (Nicholas Pileggi, Bo Goldman, and Paul Schrader) -- contributed to the script of this idealistic political drama. John Pappas (Al Pacino) is the popular, ethical Mayor of New York; Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack) is his even more idealistic and principled deputy. When a detective and mobster kill each other and an innocent six-year-old black child in a shootout, questions arise about what the cop was doing meeting with the gangster in the first place. The Mayor and his
Feb 16, 1996 Wide
Jul 27, 1999
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
All Critics (37) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (10) | DVD (3)
A watchable but never pulsating portrait of mayoral wheeling-dealing.
An ambitious but unsatisfying meditation on the morality of power.
Has all the ingredients for a solid drama but instead comes out a half-baked disappointment.
Convincing drama about the moral ambiguity of contemporary politics.
The acting is fairly good all around in this solid suspense film, but the script is a little too uninvolving to rise above a level of mediocrity. Pacino is superb, of course, performing with a range of emotions most actors can only dream of.
June 29, 2006Super Reviewer
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