Cruising (Deluxe Edition) | Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino

Cruising (Deluxe Edition) | Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino | I liked the movie

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	Cruising (Deluxe Edition) Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino Warner Home Video, 2007 average customer review:based on 91 reviews view larger image
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A sadistic serial killer is targeting New York's gay community and in response the NYPD sends rookie cop Steve Burns undercover to find the killer. Burns who is straight poses as a homosexual and enters the world of gay S&M sex clubs learning their rules and mores as he goes along. But as Burns arduously tracks down the murderer he finds himself growing attracted to these clubs and the gay lifestyle forcing him to question -- and possibly confront -- his own sexual identity.System Requirements:Running Time: 102 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 085391167969 Manufacturer No: 116796

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A Pachino sleeper

A Pachino movie thats not talked about to often. Disturbing and dark with a twisted ending.....buy it!

I liked the movie

Yeah...An ignorant person may assume that this movie represants ALL gays, and not just a small section. And to an even more ignorant person, it would correlant rough sex with murder and violence. But to people with half a brain, it is about a serial killer in an setting that most people don't find themselves in. Is that any different than a movie about a far away place or time, say the 1800's with Jack the Ripper, perhaps?

There are 2 reasons why I consider this a "great movie". 1) Movies are consider an "art form". And art is supposed create a reaction and stir up emotion. Ideally, even inspire behavior or action. This movie certainly does that. 2) Good art, or a good movie, should be provactive, and leave you thinking about it and feeling something about the people in it afterwards. And again, I think this movie does that. One is to wonder, "Did they get the right killer? If so, who killed the neighbor? Is that death just a sign that there will always be a new killer to go after? Or did Al Pacino's charactor kill him? If so, was it based out of his own frustrations of what he went through?" Also, I think the movie cannot help to make you wonder about a part of our culture that you may not have thought about before, and your own views about your own interests on some level.

Isn't that what art is supposed to do? Make you feel and think?

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Startling and apocalyptic. . . .

Viewed now, with the benefit of more than 29 years hindsight, what's startling about William Friedkin's "Cruising" is its foreboding, apocalyptic (and apparently unintentional) pre-AIDS depiction of gay nightlife as it existed in the late 1970's. Though not by any means a masterpiece, "Cruising" is an intermittently fascinating study of an undercover cop (played by Al Pacino) investigation of a string of brutal murders of local gay men. Filmed in and around several gay bars and hard-core sex clubs located in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village (with actual patrons--not only extras--and club life serving as the backdrop), the film was quite controversial at the time of its release. "Cruising prompted a good number of protests for the graphic, no-holds-barred nature of its subject matter and also for its sensationalism, with the potential to incite or increase violence against gays (this movie was made near the dawn of the "gay liberation" movement). "Cruising" is best seen for Pacino's stirring performance as the sexually ambivalent Steve Burns, who infiltrates the furtive gay underground scene and finds a powerful, addictive environment that has a menacing mixture of danger and gutter glamour.

Like "The Exorcist" and "The Boys in the Band" (both of which Friedkin directed), "Cruising" is often heavy-handed and it raises far more questions about sexuality, cultural identity and societal permissiveness than it answers. Yet the film still holds one's attention as it telescopes a specific cultural phenomenon circa 1979. As portrayed here, the gay scene is at once alluring and repugnant.

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