This has to be one of the most unfairly underrated film in movie history.
The movie also contains some important messages, and one of the most important is: "Never give up your friends, no matter what..." The movie has excellent cast (Pacino is great as usual, and Sean Penn does an amazing job as a repulsive corrupted lawyer) directing and soundtrack.
The performances are great, Pacino gives a great Humphrey Bogart-like performance as the ex-con always tormented by his past (the narration is also great, it clearly shows us how Carlito is feeling, and how i think an ex-con would think trying to clean his act with temptations in every corner). Well, thats my two bits on that movie. (1987) HDScent of a Woman (1/8) Movie CLIP - Charlie Meets Frank (1992) HDScarface (1983) - Every Dog Has His Day Scene (4/8) | MovieclipsWhy ‘Carlito’s Way’ Is Superior to De Palma’s ‘Scarface’ It's in out nature, and this story is excellent. 84 out of 97 found this helpful. As human beings, we love story telling. After his release, he's convinced himself that he's never going back to his life of crime, but before he knows it, he's inevitably being pulled back thanks to his corrupt friends and family.
7 out of 7 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? It’s a big, theatrical performance, but Pacino connects with the inner struggle that makes Carlito’s tale so tragic (obviously, it’s this quality that makes Pacino’s Michael Corleone comparable in how sympathetic we are to such a morally indefensible character).Miller’s Golden Age of Hollywood looks made her a perfect fit for “The Artist,” “Chaplin,” and this -- she’s the perfect film noir character. Great Performances, Perfect Film.
Oops Carlito's Way (1993) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Watching Carlito's Way I had the feeling that De Palma wanted to resurrect and redeem poor old Tony Montana, Scarface (1983). Critically panned, the film nevertheless received Torres' commendation as an accurate adaptation of the first half of his novel.The story begins in the 1960s with three inmates in a Reggie, after being kicked off the crew by Carlito, attacks and kidnaps Artie Jr. outside of his house, with the help of two other thugs. The ending is good, when all seems, that to the protagonist удалосб, and we are waited with the USUAL "good" ending, but there is no also this moment very sentimental.
Love? The beautiful Penelope Ann Miller gives us a wonderful performance as Carlito's only positive influence and inspiration in his life (I think this performance should have established her as strong leading lady, but as i said, this movie doesn't have even half of the recognition it deserves). It has romance, violence, betrayal, gangsters, sex and sorrow. Brian De Palma makes one of his best (and under-rated) films by letting the viewer be as self-aware of the on-coming chiches and pit-falls of the drama the story intones, just by the narration. Al Pacino, Sean Penn, and Penelope Ann Miller create an artistic and romantic twist to the gangster genre in Carlito's way, story of a convicted gangster by the name of Carlito Brigante, known to his ex-lover as Charlie, who manages to get his way out of jail thanks to crooked drug-addicted lawyer David Kleinfield. It is also a love story, not boy meets girl, ad nauseum, but real, destined soul mates, wrenched apart and thrown back together five years later by some abberation of fate. Unlike Pacino's similar film Scarface(1983), Carlito's Way is not just a blood bath without much of a story. With Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo. The world in this film is fascinating to behold, a bit of mob, a character wanting to reform, a love story and an action story. If you want a genuine gangster film, original through the actor and with such realism, Pacino is you man. Ten years later, De Palma and Pacino. Carlito, Rocco and Earl fly to the islands with Earl for his wedding. Was this review helpful to you?
Penn oozes impish carnality and, as in his turn in “Casualties of War,” gives superbly textured portrayals for De Palma of characters who, in lesser hands, would have merely been villains.A young Viggo Mortensen and Pacino have a key scene together; it’s so well acted, one can almost forgive how Mortensen is going full-on Tony Montana with his accent.David Koepp’s screenplay is full of quotable dialog, like “When you can’t see the angles no more, you in trouble baby, you in trouble.” Also, “I don’t invite this s--t,” says Carlito, “it just comes to me.”Establishing Carlito as a Joe Gillis-like character (ala “Sunset Boulevard”) in the very first scene felt like a misstep in 1993, as the opening credits reveal the last scene first. 71 out of 82 found this helpful.
A sequel of sorts, not to diminish either film in anyway.
Carlito's Way (1993), is a brilliant cinematic work. He was the most convincing character in the movie.
86 out of 95 found this helpful. Have read he is a far le...Pitt outshined everyone in this film. This story is a perfect thriller whose structure and development feels a lot like a Greek tragedy reinterpreted as a film noir. Just like it's "brother", Scarface, the movie gives us an insight of a criminal world, with all it's cruelty, deceit, lies and fatal decisions which can change ones life forever. Carlito's Way: Rise to Power is a 2005 prequel to Brian De Palma 's 1993 film Carlito's Way. Director Brian De Palma ('Scarface') teams up with Al Pacino ('The Godfather' films) once again to film this movie, and it works.
When they are released, Rocco intermediates a heroin business with a family of the Italian Mafia leaded by Artie Badalato Sr. Carlito negotiates with the lord Leroy "Hollywood Nicky" Barnes the area where the trio could operate in his neighborhood and sooner the three friends become powerful. In Carlito's Way, Pacino again plays a Hispanic drug lord.
A Jewish junkie is paroled after 8 years in prison, and once back on the street, rips off a drug dealer whom he already had a grudge against. There was a time when I really wasn't into movies very much.