My Review:
	'Dog Day Afternoon' is the intense, darkly comic, moving story of Sonny Wortzik, a deperate New Yorker who robs a bank to pay for his male lover's sex change operation.  Along with Sal, his not too bright accomplice and the bank employees, Sonny becomes the center of a huge media circus.  And it's based on a true story!      I think this is my favorite Pacino role because it is so complex and multi-faceted.  At first glance, Sonny seems to be just a regular guy, rough and uneducated, holding up a bank for some extra cash (we don't learn the reason for the robbery until the second half of the film).  But the more we get to know him, the more we realize that he is a complex, tortured, but deeply real young man.  Al gives a performance that is SO amzing, it's almost unbelievable.  You want to run over and give Sonny a hug, tell him it's alright and that you're on his side, yet you're afraid of him for some reason.  I can't describe how much I loved this movie...I just did.  You feel so in touch with Sonny Wortzik, you feel his utter desperation...or at least I did.      Anyway, this movie really changed my life, I guess you could say.  It's just an amazing film that should not be missed.  And John Cazale does a nice turn as Sal.  It's such a shame that he didn't live longer, I'm sure he would have become a screen icon.       'Dog Day Afternoon' is so full of life, and so bitingly real, that you want to get sucked into the bank along with Sonny and Sal.  You want to experience it with them.  Or at least stay glued to the screen for two hours!  Go rent this film.