PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

merelyaninnuendo Carlito's WayThere are few high pitched dramatic and action sequences that antes up the game while the rest of it is just a repetitive slog that is pulled by nothing but only performance. David Koepp's adaptation is not only witty but gripping too that helps keep the audience engaged through out the course of it even though the outcome is quite predictable. Brian De Palma as always is no short on execution but the editing which could have been a lot better and shorter too. Al Pacino handles the "performance" account and unlike other features of his, he is supported too by an amazing cast like Sean Penn, Penelope Wanna Miller and Luis Guzman. Carlito's Way has an interesting perspective for a "gangster" tale but unfortunately is taken with the same approach and walks on the same line despite of containing a wider range.

ahsawesa Carlito's Way is a gangster film but unlike many gangster films where the gangster is getting into the game, this film is about a gangster finding his way out of it It is very fast paced, i breezed through the first 30 or 40 minutes without even feeling like it's been 30-40 minutes. The two main performances by Pacino and Penn are very good. Narrations don't always work well in movies and can come off as forced sometimes but this film benefits from narration because it adds to the experience Romantic chemistry between the Pacino and Penelope Ann Miller's character is so goodThe story is good and decent enough. There are many tense moments in this film and some very fantastic action sequences that will keep you on the edge of your seat.I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

Bryan Bjerke I never even knew this film existed until recently. This film is vastly underrated and is on par, if not better than Scarface. The two films blend so well together, but yet offer a unique viewing experience for each film. It was nice seeing familiar faces in Carlito's Way coming from Scarface. The standout of this film however, has to be Sean Penn. His acting was so brilliant that without him, the film would've suffered quite a bit. In fact, his acting was so well done that the Grand Theft Auto series made a character based off of him (Ken Rosenberg). Just go out and watch it if you enjoy movies like Scarface, you won't be disappointed.

GertrudeStern Ever taken a vow (think religion, marriage or New Years resolution) that just felt impossible to keep? Carlito did.CW traces the true rehabilitation of Carlito Brigante (played by Al Pacino), a Puerto Rican drug lord, incarcerated, then sprung through a technicality after a five year prison sentence that he was rightfully charged for.You might expect a guy like that, who is given a new lease on life through paperwork and not true justice, would return to his old wrongdoings. But Carlito's goals are pure: he's going to move to "paradise" and become a car rental agency worker. His first step to realizing this dream? Raising 75 grand from taking over the club of a debtor that is called -- I'm not kidding -- El Paradiso. In the setting of the club, in the darkened corners of his old neighborhood, try as he might to eschew his old lifestyle, the past proves a slippery fish to release for old Carlito.Carlito's struggle is deep -- he feels disconnected to the world outside, in part because he feels like everything else -- the faces, the names, the businesses -- have changed, and in part because he feels unrecognized for who he has become -- a man apart from the Carlito the old familiar faces want him to be.De Palma and the producers are in love with the outside / inside motif, and use every chance they can to leave Carlito out in the rain, wistfully watching ballerinas through long windows. Top-shelf cinematography. Sean Penn stars as Carlito's Jewish lawyer, Kleinfeld, and honestly, after all of the Sean Penn flicks I've seen, I had absolutely zero idea it was him until mid-way through the film. Set to a score by Patrick Doyle, the opening credits alone warrant reason to put this on. Carlito's Way is such a good flick that you might actually feel selfish if you watch it on your lonesome.