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What movie do you believe is his best performance?


My favourite performance done by Al Pacino is Scarface, which is yours?

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I usually rank his big 3 as :

The Godfather Part II
Dog Day Afternoon
Angels in America

I think The Local Stigmatic is his most underrated/underappreciated and in some ways his most inspired given its limitations (50 minutes long, relatively few scenes, a play on film).

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Yup scarface for sure! ??

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Dog Day Afternoon

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Oooh good question if squeezed I guess The GodFather II!But he's great in everything!

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I would say The Godfather II.


"I put on underwear for this?"

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I've seen all of his films besides his new ones Manglehorn, The Humbling and Danny Collins. I'll be seeing all three of them soon.

To me, these are his all time best performances, ranked in order. There were some other performances I thought were solid but didn't quite make the cut (People I Know and Author Author for instance).

Pacino movies

1. Dog Day Afternoon
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather II
4. Scent of a Woman
5. Serpico
6. Glengarry GlenRoss
7. Donnie Brasco
8. The Godfather III
9. Scarface
10. Angels In America
11. The Merchant of Venice
12. And Justice For All
13. The Insider
14. You Don't Know Jack
15. The Devil's Advocate
16. Scarecow
17. Insomnia
18. Dick Tracy
19. Carlito's Way
20. The Panic In Needle Park
21. Any Given Sunday
22. Heat
23. Phil Spector
24. Frankie and Johnny
25. Sea of Love

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Godfather 2 for sure

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