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Al Pacino(The Godfather) and Chris O'Donnell (Batman and Robin) come together for a chilling look at handicaps;.Retired Colonel Slade lives with a... lative..When that family plans a get-away,Charlie is called to keep a watch on the veteran.What happens,Charlie Sims is unaware that the old man plans a \"last fling\" before an attempted suicide.I got angry with Slade's nephew;He seems insensitive and uncaring about his uncle's feelings.I feel the Colonel's angst,when he says \" I have no Life\" ; Full Review
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But it's essentially a tour de force for Pacino, and he sustains us through the slow passages by working with a closed-in intensity that turns each scene into a kind of mini-movie complete with its own ticking time bomb. [23Dec1992 Pg. 1]Full Review
The good thing is that the principals and film makers make the absolute most of a conventional opportunity.Full Review
Thanks to a landmark performance by Al Pacino, SCENT OF A WOMAN is an agreeably watchable film. If they'd made it half an hour shorter and re-written the ending, it could have been a great one.Full Review
By the end of Scent of a Woman, we have arrived at the usual conclusion of the coming-of-age movie, and the usual conclusion of the prep school movie. But rarely have we been taken there with so much intelligence and skill.Full Review
In the end, Scent of a Woman offers little more than lumbering simulation of Rain Man's nimble magic. But Pacino's performance-scabrous, tender, ripely theatrical-is a master showman's trick.Full Review
