dynaman

Just another of those Hollywood movies about Hollywood movies with the predictable overworked story-callous ,egoist mogul uses everyone to make box-office hits. Obviously this kind of behavior is excusable and even admired so long as success is achieved. Why is that attitude so easy to believe about Hollywood?)And why does a suit look so inappropriate on the ham Douglas? Lana is awful as usual and Gloria Grahams considerable talent is buried beneath a dreadful Southern accent.Even the excellent Dick Powell is unable to salvage this homage to Hollywood silliness. But be of good faith; the victims of the mogul's scandalous antics finally realize,in fact,that he has done each of them an incalculable favor and that the success they later achieve on their own merits was possible only because of him. The ungrateful victims join our hero in a very typical and schmaltzy happy ending. The viewer now understands how terrible,selfish behavior is really an act of kindness. Only in LalaLand.

I had avoided watching this sequel for twenty years,fearful I would prefer it over the original. How wrong I was! Unlike most of the reviewers here who can't seem to gush effusively enough over this film, I feel it is a good distance behind the original. Here we have the overrated Al Pacino acting as if in a trance, stone-faced,humorless and cold-blooded, the epitome of egomania Nothing matters to him except crooked power and greed. A truly unsavory person.a rotten husband and father,he leaves little to admire,unlike his predecessor. Robert DeNiro gives another one of his elliptical performances. John Cazale as Fredo and Michael Gazzo as Freddie save the movie from being downright boring. What was the plot? Who cares?

This could just be the worst action picture of the century. The dialogue is trite and cliche-ridden. The acting is only passable and the action scenes are disconnected and predictable. This man should never be permitted to direct any kind of movie ---- EVER. Silly plot.