Call me crazy, but I just watched this for the first time tonight, and I think that Pacino and Crowe gave the best performances of their lives. I thought the performances from Plummer and the rest of the supporting cast were spectacular as well.
shareI absolutely agree.
Pacino's performance is one of my favourites, along with Jack Nicholson in Batman, Benicio Del Toro in The Usual Suspects, Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained.
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Agreed. For a movie that fell under the radar in 1999 it's almost criminal that Crowe and Pacino didn't get oscars for their performances. Simply outstanding.
shareCrowe received his the following year.
If you ask me, total make-up Oscar (though I still thought he was great in Gladiator).
Pacino... just insane he wasn't at least nominated for this.
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Wait a minute... who am I here?
It is Politics.
Just watch again the scene with the lady lawyer, and what.. hm, something "interference" (Pacino said "it was like we are getting a disease).
It is Politics. The tobacco companies didn't and don't like the movie.
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I like everyone but Plummer.
It was just too hard for me to swallow a Brit as Mike Wallace. He just couldn't do arrogant New York Jewish. Not even close.
It was just too hard for me to swallow a Brit as Mike Wallace
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario..share
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Plummer was raised in Senneville, Quebec, by Montreal.
Whatever. In most of his roles he affects this posh accent... which I guess I mistook as a Brit ex-pat.
Regardless: he sounds as much like Mike Wallace as Erik Sevareid. And that's a big deal in this sort of character role. He had to sound like a 'pushy New York Jew' (Wallace's words).
I thought his performance in L.A. Confidential was better.
shareCrowe maybe, but Pacino (who was also excellent) has done far more impressive work. His performance in Scent Of A Woman is on another level, and his portrayal of Michael Corleone in Godfathers I and II is phenomenal, and very different to the ‘shouty’ roles of his later career.
shareYeah I agree, this movie is a masterpiece.
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