The review in a nutshell could probably be boiled down to:
Mom, can we have Serpico? “We have Serpico at home”.
Serpico at home:
But it honestly wasn’t anything excessively bad. The film’s themes of police corruption and police racism are unfortunately relevant to this very day. And with Paul Newman at the helm, you’re never in for a weak acting performance. Plus it features a who’s who of legendary 70s character actors, some of which took me by surprise, such as the inclusion of Dom Chianese (albeit only for one scene). The pacing was brutally slow at times though, the plot relied on too many coincidences, and too many plot points were sloppily intertwined with each other.
I’d recommend it to anyone who’s a Paul Newman fan or to anyone who likes Taxi Driver-esque gritty, old-school NYC crime films (though this admittedly isn’t on the same level as a Dog Day Afternoon or a French Connection).
The review in a nutshell could probably be boiled down to:
Mom, can we have Serpico? “We have Serpico at home”.
Serpico at home:
But it honestly wasn’t anything excessively bad. The film’s themes of police corruption and police racism are unfortunately relevant to this very day. And with Paul Newman at the helm, you’re never in for a weak acting performance. Plus it features a who’s who of legendary 70s character actors, some of which took me by surprise, such as the inclusion of Dom Chianese (albeit only for one scene). The pacing was brutally slow at times though, the plot relied on too many coincidences, and too many plot points were sloppily intertwined with each other.
I’d recommend it to anyone who’s a Paul Newman fan or to anyone who likes Taxi Driver-esque gritty, old-school NYC crime films (though this admittedly isn’t on the same level as a Dog Day Afternoon or a French Connection).
