United Artists
Directed by William Friedkin
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros.)
Al Pacino goes undercover in the nightclubs of NYC to find a killer who is preying on homosexuals. He spends night after night in sweaty, underground clubs, witnessing first hand their depraved lifestyles. He believes a waiter might be the killer and brings him to a bugged hotel room where the police break down the door and arrest him. Pacino becomes sympathetic to the man's situation when it becomes obvious they have the wrong man and he is beaten up during interrogation. He goes back to the bars and identifies another suspect, eventually confronting him in a seedy park. A complex character study brilliantly written by Friedkin and flawlessly portrayed by Pacino, who is gradually seduced by the lifestyle that initially repulses him.
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