Sea of Love

Sometimes Al Pacino can be predictable and this is a problem when you consider SEA OF LOVE was released back in 1989. Now almost twenty years later I'm sad to report this film doesn't hold up as well as it shhould and Pacino is a big part of that. It's a case of "we've seen this from him before" and damned if we didn't have to see it again and again. Sure, the Richard Price script isn't that bad as an erotic mystery thriller goes and Harold Becker had enough directorial style to give the flick a nice feel but we still come back to Pacino overacting. Ellen Barkin does her best work here and Michael Rooker and John Goodman offer some great support but you know a film is in trouble when the best moment comes from a Samuel L. Jackson cameo.