23 July 2008 9:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news
"Diaboli virtus in lumbis est. Diaboli virtus in lumbis est. The virtue of the devil is in his loins." And now Camp Month brings us to The Devil's Advocate—or, as I'd like to call it, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The "Hoo-ah" Al Pacino. When Pacino took the Best Actor Oscar for Scent Of A Woman, besting the likes of Denzel Washington in Malcolm X and Stephen Rea in The Crying Game, it felt ironically like one of the great actors of his generation had been lost to us. Gone was the quiet, tortured, soulful introspection of Pacino's work in classics like The Godfather Part II and Serpico. Instead, we received a preening scenery-chewer whose performances were all surface theatricality, with little character underneath. At the time, he seemed to me a husk of his former self, lazily coasting on the authority of...
Scott Tobias
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