It's pretty standard for a movie thriller to throw in a few red herrings to keep the viewer guessing, but it seemed like every character in this picture might have fit that description. Even Jack Gramm's (Al Pacino) teaching assistant Kim Cummings (Alicia Witt), while running for her life along side her professor. The film did everything it could to plant virtually every character as a suspect to murder Gramm in the allotted time, that at one point I thought Jack's ex-wife turned lesbian (Amy Brenneman) was a potential bad guy. That part of the story alone had me scratching my head but I guess stranger things could happen than having your ex come back to work for you. But I'll say this, given Shelly Barnes was given an impossible work load over the course of the story, I'd say she was probably underpaid.
So, is this Pacino's worst movie role? I don't think I've seen him in any film where he didn't do a good job, so the fairest thing one could say is that he was a lot better as Michael Corleone and Frank Serpico. You can probably give the guy a break at this point, he's almost eighty years old.
So, is this Pacino's worst movie role? I don't think I've seen him in any film where he didn't do a good job, so the fairest thing one could say is that he was a lot better as Michael Corleone and Frank Serpico. You can probably give the guy a break at this point, he's almost eighty years old.