CARLITO’S WAY (1993)
Director: Brian De Palma
Universal Pictures
Hot damn peeps, do I have a bad-ass flick for you all this week, were talking some straight out gangster shit and not in no Boyz N The Hood type scenario. Master film maker Brian De Palma reunites with Al Pacino to tell the engrossing tale of Carlito Brigante, a former hot shot drug dealer who gets sprung out of the slammer by his cocaine riddled lawyer David Kleinfeld (Sean Penn).
Back out in New York's crooked streets, Carlito decides to walk a straight path and stay out of the drug game much to the surprise of his former associates. Things start looking up for Carlito when he becomes a manager of a ritzy nightclub but soon enough old enemies and up and coming young thugs looking to make a name for themselves begin to try and drag him back down to what he is desperately trying to escape.
As dark forces encircle our anti-hero, we see that he lives by an old-school code of honour that has little relevance in the changing times, which puts him on a deadly collision course with less scrupulous characters.
Crammed to the hilt with crooked cops, trigger happy thugs and vengeful mobsters, Carlito’s Way is a gangster film you will never forget.
Be sure to pick up this crime-action tour de force the next time you’re at your video store and witness Al Pacino fuck shit up like no one else.
- Review by Jordan Bloomer
Here's the trailer: