Insomnia sucked.
Righteous Kill sucked.
I’ve got no love for Author! Author!
But aside from these and The Devil’s Advocate, 88 Minutes, Scent of a Woman, Revolution, Gigli, Any Given Sunday, Dick Tracy, Cruising, Bobby Deerfield, City Hall and The Godfather Part III, he’s solid gold!
Ouch.
Let’s just say we are enemies for life…
Say the same thing about Christopher Walkin and it is for eternity!
I got no issues with Christopher Walkin.
Christopher Walken, though, is a hack! 
He’s excellent in Donnie Brasco and does very little chewing.
Pacino like the other 70’s iconic actors (De Niro and Nicholson) became parodys of their own success. I find only when they have a strong director (Scorssese for example) who can reign in their egotistical hammy acts are they watchable.
Pacino’s turning point was Scarface. It was a fun role but damn if he didn’t stay over teh top after that. I mean sure he had over the top moments (Dog Day afternoon) but these were not constantly over the top and he had the sense to use them as big moments of explosive energy to otherwise quiet reflective characters… (Think Michael Corleone yelling at Frankie Five angles about the Hit on Michael’s home where his kid’s played)
Now his performance amp is always set to 11. Hard to watch. While Insomnia wasn’t great it had great moments from him because a director had the balls to say “Ok Al this time I want you to do the line without shouting it.”
That being said My guilty pleasure is his performance in Dick Tracy… awful movie… hammy performance but for soem reason it makes me smile, go figure.
Pacino was overdue for an Oscar. It’s happened a few times, an actor gets awarded the Oscar not so much for his present performance but for all the great roles he should have got one for.
Well bollocks to the lot of you. 
I like Al, so there
Absolutely ! “People I Know” People I Know (2002) - IMDb
I noticed this at a swap meet, looked over the cast and thought “it couldn’t be that bad - look who’s in it.” I was wrong. Dead wrong. Want 90 minutes of my life back wrong (kept waiting for it to get better).
I love Pacino hamming it up. It’s hilarious. When he is in a stinker and he knows it he will at least chew scenary to be entertaining. Good for him. Godfather I and II (and he is even better in II) shows him delivering a performance that is out of this world.
This, of course, means war!
Definitely. As he’s gotten older, Pacino must have developed some sort of nutritional deficiency because he’s increasingly felt the need to chew the scenery. Granted, it worked in Dick Tracy because it was a movie based on a comic strip and he was playing a live-action cartoon. It also worked in The Devil’s Advocate where his deliberately campy over-the-top performance partially saved what was otherwise a turgid supernatural thriller. However, if done too often, it can push him into self-parody. That’s why I also thought he gave a good performance in **Insomnia **where he effectively dialed it down and played someone who could be mistaken for a real human being.
How about Pacino in Heat? Definitely a movie that would have benefited from tighter editing, but pretty damn good overall. I even liked most pf Al’s role until his “Because she’s gotta GREAT ASS!” moment. It was like someone trying to ruin the immersion.
In my book, he’ll always be great because of the Godfather trilogy. (3 wasn’t up to snuff, but not because of Pacino.)
Well, you didn’t ask if Pacino has ever given a bad performance but rather if he’s ever made a bad movie.
I generally like Pacino too. I just don’t think all his movies are good. He was fine in 88 Minutes, but the movie was still contrived trash.
For bad performance the list would be different.
Simone
Insomnia (didn’t like his performance but somehow still liked the movie)
Ocean’s 13 (didn’t list this before since it isn’t really his movie, but he’s just taking a paycheck)