**Sigh**ok, here goes, for me al pacino is a fantastic actor. well, at least he WAS a fantastic actor. in the er=arly days he did some phenominal movies-the godfather,dog day afternoon,serpico to name just a few. however i feel his last TRULY great role was in donnie brasco. everything else since then has been sone in pantomime fashion. devils advocate?please he hammed up the screen so badly i very nearly shouted "he's behind you" at the screen. don't get me wrong his speech in any given sunday was rousing,spine-tingling and passionate, shame the rest of the film is mince!
sure de niro has been enjoying himself in comedies lately but his turn in the score (average script, great performances all round)typifies just how cool de niro is, he says more with just a look of the eye than pacino manages with an over-the-top-speech any day of the week.
you cannot compare scraface and the godfather to meet the fockers jackass, compare them with raging bull or taxi driver, oh and justa wee question-how many oscars did pacino get for the godfather?exactly, de niro did more in half a film to earn that oscar than pacino did in 3 films
nah pacino made a film with colin farrell

umpkin:
again, watch raging bull, taxi driver,cape fear or if we are talking about performances tehn watch the deer hunter, long and slow but what a performance

well said man
elvin mate that was by far one of pacino's worst performances, he was so over the top that....well.....as i said above, i thought it was panto season
anyway i will add a poll, great thread