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Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive - An honest cop.
1973 · 2h 9m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Sidney Lumet
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Top critics, in their words
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.
Sidney Lumet's direction adeptly combines gritty action and thought-provoking comment.
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.
Another problem, these days, is Pacino's characterisation; he seems at times more like a misplaced hippy than a plainclothes cop.
Lumet's biopic of Frank Serpico, the virtuous cop who exposed a network of graft in the NYPD, feels depressingly relevant.
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