At the Movies!

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For the first time I watched a movie Starring/featuring actor Al Pacino: Carlito's Way.

The story is very good and believable, the problems for Carlito (Al Pacino) are very typical for someone in his position and the relationships are all very convincing. The fact that Edwin Torres based his characters on real people and that events in the film are inspired by real life (yup, I actually did my research after watching the movie), really help Carlito's Way to be a credible film. Al Pacino's performance was really spot-on, along with that of Penelope Ann Miller and Sean Penn (his character "David Kleinfeld" is a good example about how character evolution doens't always has to be in a positive light).

And while is true that there are only two actions scenes in the movie (a bit short considering belongs to the ganster genre), the content is good enough to make up for this. Besides, the two shootouts are very good scenes anyway, especially the last one as the tension build up is so intense.

Fun Fact: In Spain the movie was named "Atrapado por su pasado" (Caught by his own past), which in a way describes the situation of the main character within the stoty.