This film, while worthwhile, doesn't quite live up to the hype surrounding it. Sidney Lumet directed this movie, which draws from an actual event that police cadets still examine: a man who robs a bank to fund his partner’s gender confirmation surgery, but then holds the manager and employees hostage when things go wrong, desperately trying to avoid being killed or apprehended by the police surrounding the buildin…

I’ve been enjoying exploring the films of director Sidney Lumet and Al Pacino’s performances from the 1970s, so I decided to watch this movie that has been sitting on my shelf for a while. It will be fascinating to see the documentary about the character Pacino plays, 'The Dog,' which I just learned about today. I really liked Lumet's earlier films like '12 Angry Men', 'The Fugitive Kind', 'The Hill', 'The Anderson T…