serpico

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070666

serpico was not bad, but i had a hard time relating to it.  i am slowly coming to believe that the main thing al pacino does is this kind of bug-eyed hangdog wtf expression.  now that i have seen it, i cannot unsee it, and it is ruining pretty much every al pacino movie for me. it is like the time i read an article that said THE ROCK only has two modes, nice-guy mode and super-serious-ass-kicker mode.  so now, though i still love THE ROCK with every fiber of my being, i cannot watch him in something without categorizing his performance into one of those two buckets.  and sometimes into both buckets.  have you seen his walking tall remake?  god i love THE ROCK.  i can even stomach johnny knoxfield a little bit now.

anyway, THE ROCK was not in this movie.  serpico gets TWO ROCKS.