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.
Pacino plays Frank Slade, a brilliant ex-Lieutenant Colonel whose career was cut short by a stupid accident. Now blind and embittered and living in New Hampshire with relatives, Slade has planned to exit this life in glorious style: after one last, hedonistic New York City weekend--the Waldorf,
the Oak Room, etc.--he plans to don his dress blues for the last time and casually blow out his brains.
The unwitting accomplice to Slade's plan is Charlie Simms, (Chris O'Donn...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
157 mins