Quote Originally Posted by dean_martin
Hey Smoke. I thought it was a GREAT film. Alec Baldwin's speech to the troops was hilarious (second prize is a set of steak knives). It also gave me that squeamish, uncomfortable feeling when Pacino is working the guy in the bar, and especially when Lemon shows up at the young guy's house. I did some selling over the phone and it's a "tough racket". We used "leads", but mine sucked. I remember asking for someone and on more than one occasion the answer was he or she passed away.

Hopefully da Worfster will chime in and elaborate on why he doesn't like this film.
I think its one of the most disturbing, wrenching and telling dramas to be put to film in long, long time. I can't watch this film.. it's like torture to me. I grew up poor and one check from being evicted, I grew up watching desperate men trying to hang on and make it one more day. I avoid this film not because it's bad but because it's to damn true.

Da Worfster