Serpico
December 1973
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Jay Cocks
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.
Variety Staff
Sidney Lumet's direction adeptly combines gritty action and thought-provoking comment.
Don Druker
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.
Geoff Andrew
Another problem, these days, is Pacino's characterisation; he seems at times more like a misplaced hippy than a plainclothes cop.
Benjamin Strong
Lumet's biopic of Frank Serpico, the virtuous cop who exposed a network of graft in the NYPD, feels depressingly relevant.
Vincent Canby
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.
Critic reviews
Jay Cocks
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.
Variety Staff
Sidney Lumet's direction adeptly combines gritty action and thought-provoking comment.
Don Druker
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.
Geoff Andrew
Another problem, these days, is Pacino's characterisation; he seems at times more like a misplaced hippy than a plainclothes cop.
Benjamin Strong
Lumet's biopic of Frank Serpico, the virtuous cop who exposed a network of graft in the NYPD, feels depressingly relevant.
Vincent Canby
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.
Cast and credits
Actors | Al Pacino, Tony Roberts, Jack Kehoe, Cornelia Sharpe, Barbara Eda-Young, James Tolkan, Lewis J. Stadlen, M. Emmet Walsh, Kenneth McMillan, John Randolph |
Producers | Martin Bregman |
Director | Sidney Lumet |
Writers | Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler |
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Start within 30 days, finish within 48 hours.
Run time
130 minutes
Rating
R
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