Serpico (Blu-ray) R

Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive - An honest cop.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: October 24, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1973
  • Label: Paramount

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User Ratings: 53,641
Another problem, these days, is Pacino's characterisation; he seems at times more like a misplaced hippy than a plainclothes cop. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
... set the style of American crime dramas in the seventies with his gritty look at street-level law enforcement and realistic portrait of procedure and systemic failure and it established Lumet as a director of intelligent, gritty, modern crime dramas Full Review
Stream on Demand
Mar 29, 2010
Rating: 5/5 -- Al Pacino delivers a powerful performance in this compelling biopic of a cop and a city's police force. Full Review
Empire Magazine
Apr 9, 2008
Rating: A+ -- "Serpico" is a candid and gritty police expose film that juxtaposes systematic police graft with the personal toll it takes on the man who attempts to blow the lid on the crooked activities that surround him. Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
Dec 10, 2010
Lumet's biopic of Frank Serpico, the virtuous cop who exposed a network of graft in the NYPD, feels depressingly relevant. Full Review
Village Voice
Aug 3, 2004
Rating: 4/5 -- 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.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
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. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Jul 26, 2011

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Shot on location on the crime-filled streets of New York City, Sidney Lumet's unflinching adaptation of Peter Maas's best-selling book is a rousing portrait of courage in the face of insidious corruption. This is a motif that Lumet would continue to mine in later films, including 1981's PRINCE OF THE CITY and 1997's NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN. Al Pacino is forcefully real as Frank Serpico, an independent young recruit entering the police force in the late 1960s, fulfilling a childhood dream. The good old boys of the NYPD lose no time in initiating Serpico into the ways of cutting corners, forging documents, and taking payoffs from local gambling operations and narcotic rings. His refusal to take illegal protection money and his counterculture lifestyle make Serpico a target for harassment by his unified and powerful peers. Lumet hones in on the evocative details of Serpico's personal struggles and inner turmoil as his obsessive fight for truth begins to have disastrous effects on his personal life and threatens his safety. SERPICO is a stellar example of gritty '70s filmmaking, featuring another electrifying performance from Pacino.

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