Serpico
Inspired by his deep will of staying away from the criminal world that full of corruption and destruction, Serpico, a young courageous and intelligent police officer, who stays away from those corrupted, does his best and struggles against survival in such circumstances, the thing that brings terrible for him.
19 October 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
20 May 1939, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
23 October 1932, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 August 1917, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
2 November 1914, Brooklyn, New York, USA
27 July 1936
21 June 1929, Rego Park, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
31 July 1935, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
29 January 1915, New York, USA
4 January 1938, New York, USA
23 December 1920, The Bronx, New York, USA
15 August 1946, New York, USA
24 October 1939, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1 September 1946, New York City, New York, USA
30 December 1927, New York City, New York, USA
22 March 1935, Ogdensburg, New York, USA
17 July 1927, Astoria, New York, USA
20 June 1931, Calumet, Michigan, USA
7 May 1926, New York City, New York, USA
26 February 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 March 1925, USA
15 August 1929, USA
2 July 1932, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 December 1938, Rincon, Puerto Rico
August 09, 2008
Imbued with mythic and even religious dimensions, Al Pacino's resourceful, Oscar-nominated performance takes Lumet's quinessential 1970s New York film beyond the realm of a cop-corruption drama.
April 09, 2008
Al Pacino delivers a powerful performance in this compelling biopic of a cop and a city's police force.
April 09, 2008
Memorable, thought-provoking and courageous.
March 29, 2010
... set the style of American crime dramas in the seventies with his gritty look at street-level law enforcement and realistic portrait of procedure and systemic failure and it established Lumet as a director of intelligent, gritty, modern crime dramas
June 24, 2006
Another problem, these days, is Pacino's characterisation; he seems at times more like a misplaced hippy than a plainclothes cop.
December 10, 2010
"Serpico" is a candid and gritty police expose film that juxtaposes systematic police graft with the personal toll it takes on the man who attempts to blow the lid on the crooked activities that surround him.
August 03, 2004
Lumet's biopic of Frank Serpico, the virtuous cop who exposed a network of graft in the NYPD, feels depressingly relevant.
April 09, 2008
Sidney Lumet's direction adeptly combines gritty action and thought-provoking comment.
March 06, 2009
Lumet and screenwriters Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler can't do anything but skim rapidly over the surface of their tale.
March 01, 2007
A virtuoso performance by Al Pacino and some expert location work by Sidney Lumet add up to a tour de force genre piece that transcends the supercop conventions to create a moving, engrossing portrait of Frank Serpico.
May 20, 2003
A remarkable record of one man's rebellion against the sort of sleaziness and second-rateness that has affected so much American life, from the ingredients of its hamburgers to the ethics of its civil servants and politicians.
July 26, 2011
Wonderful potential, and wasted. Serpico has some brutal surface flash and an acetylene performance by Al Pacino in the title role, but its energy is used to dodge all the questions it should have raised and answered.
