Last Movie Watched: Dog Day Afternoon

Being an ardent fan of Al Pacino, I always wanted to watch his initial movies where he really looked great. I have seen many of his movies 'The Scent of a Woman', Heat, The Insider, Scarface, didn't like his hard look. Remember, his 'The Godfather', it was so great. Finally I found one movie on LAN, 'Dog Day Afternoon'.

The movie starts with Al Pacino going to rob a bank with his two accompanies. Hilarious part starts when one of them leaves saying he cannot do this. They don't leave soon they rob and get trapped inside as Police comes there. The people inside are kept as hostages and soon due to media coverage Sonny aka Al Pacina becomes a semi celebrity. People inside seem to enjoy the situation for this coverage. However, his seemingly popularity goes down when his homosexuality behaves is revealed. In the end they are caught.

The fact that movie was based on the original story makes it special. I liked the movie. Story was great. Acting of Al Pacino was as usual great. My rating ****. Imdb gives it 8.0 rightly given.