The return of Al Pacino?

Like Samuel L. Jackson and Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino has been making nothing but crap movies for years now. I was thinking about this this morning, when suddenly I come across this news article on ImbdPro, which brought my hopes up.

"Al Pacino", who has long been interested in tackling the character of Napoleon, is on tap to play the French emperor in a screen adaptation of Staton Rabin's children's book "Betsy and the Emperor."

Al Pacino is playing Napoleon, a role he has been looking forward to, apparently. Perhaps this might be his great comeback, playing his dream role in the performance of a lifetime. What do you think? Is this going ot be Oscar worthy or absolute crap?

Seriously, the last great movie Al Pacino did was The Insider in 1999, ever since it has been either pretty good,average, or crap. Where is the actor from The Godfather Part I and Part II? Scent of a Woman?

Yeah, it's sad to see great actors like Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro continually doing bad movies for the past decade.  I want to see them in Oscar-quality movies again.  Hopefully this Napoleon movie turns out well.  Movies based on Napoleon's life will always have a chance to be superb.  I don't know anything about the book Betsy and the Emperor but since it's a children's book, it doesn't give me too much hope for the movie adaptation.

Who knows.  Hopefully he and DeNiro can turn around their careers.

They're getting a old now.  They've already shown they can act, nowadays I guess they can't find any suitable roles in good movies.

"They're getting a old now.  They've already shown they can act, nowadays I guess they can't find any suitable roles in good movies."

What similarities does he have with a blond man? considering this, this movie turns out to be a crap. otherwise they will choose another famous actor instead of a Crime genre star.

Edit: Napoleon was Italian yeah but he was blond.

Pacino did The Merchant of Venice, which was great. But I agree, recently in movies like Two for the Money and The Recruit he has been crap. Let's hope for the best since he's one of my favorite actors.

Plus there are plenty of younger actors will to work for less.  With a sizable name behind them.

I was kinda hoping to hear more about rumors of Pacino playing Salvidor Dali in a bio-pic. 

They're only bad because you have such high hopes for them...

"What similarities does he have with a blond man? considering this, this movie turns out to be a crap. otherwise they will choose another famous actor instead of a Crime genre star.Edit: Napoleon was Italian yeah but he was blond."

It could be good, but I don't think this role will put him back up there, so to speak.

He was good as Shylock in the Merchant of Venice.

"What similarities does he have with a blond man? considering this, this movie turns out to be a crap. otherwise they will choose another famous actor instead of a Crime genre star.Edit: Napoleon was Italian yeah but he was blond."