Carlito's Way (DVD) Reviews

WHAT IS IT ABOUT: Al Pacino stars as Carlito Brigante, a mafia legend who is intent on going straight upon his release from prison. Through family, and ultimately his corrupt lawyer, he ends up being drawn back into organised crime, yet he desperately wants to leave it all behind to be with the love of his life, Gail. WAS IT ANY ...  Read the complete review

We're first introduced to Carlito Brigante when the film opens with him taking a slug in the chest at Grand Central Station. As consciousness slips away, he reflects on his life and the events leading up to his shooting. Brigante is a Puerto Rican former drug lord who had his 30 year sentence for drug dealing quashed by the court of ...  Read the complete review

Carlito's Way is Brian De Palma's 1993 gangster epic starring Al Pacino as Carlito Brigante, and Sean Penn as Lawyer David Kleinfeld. The plot is based around ex-con Carlito and his attempts to reform his life after getting out of jail early, a character who is almost like a reformed Tony Montana from Scarface without the temper, while ...  Read the complete review

This is as good a ganster film as you're gonna to get. This is as good a thriller as you're gonna get. From start to finish this is a brilliant film. Pacino is in top form as Carlito Brigante, a Puerto Rican ex-drug lord, just out of Riker's Isle, who vows to go straight. He takes up a job offered to him by his lawyer, David ...  Read the complete review

After BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES and RAISING CAIN director Brian De Palmer needed to make a movie of the kind we all know he does best. CARLITO'S WAY is that movie....... Al Pacino (carlito briganti) is a latino gangster and with the help of his lawyer Sean Penn (david klienfeld) gets off a lengthy prison sentence on a legal ...  Read the complete review

Al Pacino is the man, as far as i'm concerned he is the greatest actor of all time. I have seen about 90% of his films. So you know that when i say this is his best performance ever it must be a fantastic film. The story is about ex hitman/ ganster Carlito Briganti (Pacino)who has been released from prison early. He plans to go ...  Read the complete review

Al Pacino plays Carlito Brigante, an ex-convict who decides that when he released from prison, he is going to change his ways, and become an honest citizen. This film is a great action thriller directed by Brian De Palma. Carlito is under pressure from his crooked lawyer friend David Kleinfeld, (Sean Penn) who takes advantage of ...  Read the complete review

I first saw Carlitos Way on tv a couple of years ago and normally with most movies on tv that go on past midnight you'll find me asleep at the end. This is one movie that had me awake from beginning to end. Al Pacino plays Carlito an ex-druglord who is freed from jail on a technicality with the help of his trusted attorney (Sean ...  Read the complete review

It's the oldest story in the book. The man who finds himself tryin to choose between the woman and the life. Calito isn't finding that choice hard at all. He's been inside for a long time. He's tired of the life, he just wants to settle down on some tropical island, rent cars to tourists and make babies. But it's ...  Read the complete review

Carlito Brigante is the last real cowboy. The long leather coat he wears, and his honourable conduct towards the young upstart Benny Blanco (John Leguizamo) all point towards his lineage on the long dusty trail to the West, together with his Hispanic background. To illustrate this point I will look at the pool room scene - in my opinion the best ...  Read the complete review

Given a doom-laden feel by the fact that Carlito (Al Pacino) is narrating the whole film while he is dying from a bullet wound, this is one of Brian De Palma's very best films. It's a classic crook-growing-straight tale, culled from novels written by Edwin Torres, a former judge. Escaping jail on a technicality in the mid-70s, ...  Read the complete review

In this wonderful masterpiece, Carlito Brigante (Pacino) gets out of a 30-year sentence from his cocaine addicted lawyer Kleinfeld (Penn). He vows to go straight but no one really buys it. He meets his one time love, and vows to her to go legit. But then his lawyer has a favor... I can't say no more from there, the suspense is to great! Penn ...  Read the complete review