I watched 88 Minutes last night and got to thinking has Pacino ever made a bad film?
From Scarface , Dog Day Afternoon, The Devils Advocate etc etc this actor is brilliant and FWIW nobody plays the devil like Al.
Incidentally 88 Minutes is brilliant
Yes: The Devil’s Advocate. But you can also blame Keanu for that fiasco.
Simone was also pretty forgettable.
I haven’t seen it, but 88 Minutes opened to very poor reviews. It has a 5% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s really, really low.
But he has been in a lot of good stuff, too. 
I thought Angels in America was really trash. Pacino’s acting in it was good, I guess, but overall the film was painfully cheesy. I also didn’t think Insomnia was very good…the only good thing in it was Al Pacino and that alone is not enough to make a movie a good movie. This is just my opinion but there you go.
Lots of people dug The Merchant of Venice with him, but I wasn’t one of them.
I did however like him quite well in Tropic Thunder.
You thought Devils was bad?..I thought it was great plus you got to see Charlize Therons punani 
Not seen Simone but as a Pacino fan I’ll probably like it.
I forgot about The Merchant of Venice, yes that was bad(ish)
Well there’s Dick Tracy. When the reviews go out of their way to praise the color scheme of a movie, you know the movie itself blows. Pacino was over the top even for Pacino in this mess.
I didn’t care for Scent of a Woman either. That he won the Oscar for that one over all his wonderful performances is really pathetic.
Wow.
I couldn’t disagree more. I thought that thing was horrible. Of course, a lot of the horrible was the misrepresentation of Seattle, where
a) All the cab drivers are white.
b) There are about 3 black people and one Asian in any classroom.
c) At the first suggestion of a light sprinkle, 96% of the population pops open an umbrella.
d) There are no fat people.
Add this to some of the worst acting I’ve seen Pacino do (with one of the lousiest scripts to work from), and you have 88 minutes of meh.
Does nobody remember Revolution? Such a stinker and so universally panned that Al didn’t make another movie for 4 years.
Although if we’re looking for bad movies De Niro is the man to turn to. He’s made some terrible films in the last 20 years. (Hide and Seek, Rocky and Bullwinkle, the list stretches on.)
According to IMDB, he had a role in Gigli, which is in the running for the worst movie of the millennium to date.
Any Given Sunday was a pretty bad film too, especially since many people had high hopes for it.
I think the assertion that Al Pacino hasn’t made a bad film has been disproved - and pretty easily at that.
I came in to mention Gigli, but the only people who think it’s the worst movie of the millennium either haven’t seen it or bought into its initial backlash and ensuing reputation. It’s not a good film by any means, but there are dozens of absolutely painful movies made every year that are magnitudes worse.
That movie required an over the top performance. He is very capable of delivering that.
Cruising and Bobby Deerfield were both quite awful, although Pacino wasn’t the problem with either of them. And what, no mention of The Godfather Part 3?
Pacino films (and I mean they’re largely his movies not just that he appeared on them) that I consider bad and not simply mediocre:
88 Minutes
Two for the Money
Simone
Bobby Deerfield
Yes, but he’s never been in a Steven Seagal film and a Jaws sequel, so Michael Caine wins the prize. However, he knows what he is and embraces it. “I have never seen [Jaws: The Revenge], but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”
As for DeNiro, I suspect, after a couple of decades of doing great roles in films that many people talk about but few people have seen he decided to start cashing all the checks Hollywood directors were sending him to do craptastic roles.
Pacino, on the other hand, is just a scenery-chewer, and has been so post-Godfather (although his work in there is phenomenal). He can be entertaining, but it rapidly becomes a comedic schtick, akin to Jim Carrey or Jack Black.
Stranger
So, apart from The Devil’s Advocate, 88 Minutes, Scent of a Woman, Revolution, Gigli, Any Given Sunday, Dick Tracy, Cruising, Bobby Deerfield and The Godfather Part III, has Mr. Pacino been in a bad film?
Yup. City Hall.
Absolutely terrible.
He’s just ok for me. Mr. K hates him with every fiber of his being.