Powerful

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The once infamous crime Boss Carlito Brigante ( Al Pacino) just got paroled. With a secret longing to reunite and get away somewhere far away with the love of his life , the ballet dancer turned exotic dancer, Gail ( Penelope Ann Miller ) , it did not take long for Carlito to get entangled into the deceitful world he once ruled. As he was doublecrossed by his lawyer Kleinfeld ( Sean Penn) it turned into a cat and mouse game, with roles reversed . Al Pacino is Carlito personified and Sean Penn as the evil, coke sniffing lawyer with a clown's head played the anti hero like it's his second skin. Brian de Palma had a string of solid material in the 80s and 90s, Carlito's Way is one in the list. Joe Cocker's song will make you cry and sentimental at the very end.

I'm not capable of writing review for this movie. I saw it for the first time about 20 years ago and only God knows how many times since and it still left me speechless once again. I can't say this is Pacino's best role, because whichever movie with him I saw last that's his best role for the moment. Pacino is, in my opinion, one of the very best actors in history and Carlito's way is one of my all time favorite movies. Probably in top 10 and surely above Godfather.10/10

I never even knew this film existed until recently. This film is vastly underrated and is on par, if not better than Scarface. The two films blend so well together, but yet offer a unique viewing experience for each film. It was nice seeing familiar faces in Carlito's Way coming from Scarface. The standout of this film however, has to be Sean Penn. His acting was so brilliant that without him, the film would've suffered quite a bit. In fact, his acting was so well done that the Grand Theft Auto series made a character based off of him (Ken Rosenberg). Just go out and watch it if you enjoy movies like Scarface, you won't be disappointed.

This movie is beautiful! I saw it when I was really young and I will never forget it, it marked me forever. Al Pacino's voice sounds just fine here, and all of the other actors played their role really well. Great movie aesthetic as well. Amazing photography and colors. Very good job.