Carlito's Way Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

Liked Scarface you should enjoy this!

Brian De palma and Al Pacino combine in a great production that is perhaps a more rounded, complete work than the much earlier and more reknowned Scarface.

Simply the best

Brian de Palma's awesome gangster flick is, in my opinion, one of the greatest films ever made. Slick, stylish and full of raw emotion.

Al Pacino excels as a drug dealer trying to go straight. Fab. If you haven't seen this film, shame on you.

Pacino's best work since Scarface

Words can't describe how many levels this film works on. It's a tragic love story - but not slushy enough to ruin the film, and it's a classic 'you reep what you sew' story but without being too 'moral'. With a well chosen cast, this film is believable, honest and gripping. Cool soundtrack too!

Pacino's way

Excellent performances (especially Pacino and an almost unrecognisable Penn) in a gritty tale of a Puerto Rican hood trying to go straight after 5 years in the 'Big House'. But things don't go quite according to plan...

Sad and Beautiful

There is simply nothing to fault in De Palma's Carlito, it's a fairly long film but every time I watch it I wish it were longer.

Pacino is stunning as the drug dealer who wants to go straight and just can't. His contact with crime won't allow him to just go and be a different man.

Penn is also on top form as the greedy coke sniffing Jewish lawyer. Pacino's girlfriend Miller is wonderful and I for one really wanted the two of them to get on that train and start a new life in paradise.

A definite 7 and a modern classic.

Pacino bang on form

This film has it all. New York locations, disco soundtrack, seventies costumes, Sean Penn as a coke-addled lawyer/wannabe gangster and Pacino playing a reformed Hispanic gangster trying go straight. Add in some great one-liners and a tragic romance doomed to fail, and you've got movie magic.

Beware of your Lawyer!

I really enjoyed this film, if you liked Scarface you are bound to like this. Sean Penn plays a slightly strange part as the corrupt Jewish lawyer and Pacino is his usual self but he is so good at the part I just cannot bring myself to critisise him.

Its got a classic storyline and surprisingly light.

De Palmas Best

This is definitly De Palmas best film and I will go as far as saying it is one of Al Pacino's best performances, along with an outstanding performance by Sean Penn.

The film is about a gangster trying to leave crime - its a sad tale of Carlito Brigante a man just released from prison only 5 years into a 30 year sentence thanks to his friend and lawyer David Kleinfeld (Sean Penn). Carlito trys to stay clean but because of his reputation on the streets - crime soon finds him again.

Great Film - 9/10

A top class gangster flick

Once again Al Pacino dominates yet another gangster film. But one has to admit rightly so as he delivers yet another rock solid performance. Based on the Books Carlito's Way and After Hours the film follows a snapshot of the Puerto Rican gangster and drug dealer Carlito Brigante and those he comes into contact with as he tries to scratch together an escape from his former life.

This film is full of action and excitement and is yet another staple gangster film from the director of Scarface. If you like the world and action of Grand Theft Auto Vice City then look no further to find out the sole inspiration with music, costume, setting and even music found in the computer game!

Definatley one to look out for if your a fan of Al Pacino, Gangster Films or like films with any action in them at all

Watch this film!

This is without a doubt a brilliant film, i hadnt heard a lot about it prior to viewing it but as a Pacino fan i thought i would have a look at it - WOW what a film! This is a brilliant film with a realistic story which is brilliantly acted by the cast especially Sean Penn. It has an awsome disco soundtrack that will have your toes tapping. A sad but really gripping story that is not to be missed.

How i had never heard much about this film before is beyond me, a great film.