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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Fantastic!

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Honestly, Cruising isn't that good of a film. That's it. I guess there's a reason that I never saw this particular Pacino film until yesterday. You can give this one a miss.

What strikes me while watching the film, is that truth to reality is really refreshing. No editing in the world can make up to a camera catching a dark, rainy street as they could back in those days when equipment was not developed. Aristoleles claimed that cruelty should be committed outside the scene, that is, in the background. The imagination of the spectator is far more imaginative than a view of the actual event. Therefore, leaving out is stronger in terms of storytelling than showing. Quite the contrary to contemporary movies, I'd say. The advantage of this story is thus the suspense built up on lack of knowledge. There is no flirting with the audience; you do not know in advance who dunnit. There is no flirting with the audience on the task of staging one of the protagonists as a gay either. This is not the greatest movie, but really worth seeing.

Al Pacino would've been better off in saying no to the project because, the movie didn't have the feel for me of being a good movie. The reason i say that is, the storyline lacked in due to it being all over the shop. I honestly thought Pacinos character would appear at the beginning in order to, investigate this homophobic crime case and then pretty much deciding to pretend to be a gay hooker. However it concentrated on two drag queens and two police officers having sex in a police car. Among the other cast, I thought it didn't concentrate on the main characters as much, it was just pure baloney.Wouldn't call this one of Al Pacinos best movies in fairness......

Cruising is one of the most controversial films in the last 40 years, up there with Straw dogs, Clockwork orange, and Natural born killers. The film follows police officer Steve Burns (Al Pacino) who has been assigned by Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) to go undercover into a gay S&M clubs to find a serial killer who has been murdering men after having sex with them. The film has many graphic scenes of Pacino in these bars observing men engaging in various sex acts. Pacino gives a solid performance as a cop in over his head, who can't quite make out how he should feel after spending night after night in these clubs. After several weeks undercover, Burns becomes emotionally and physically distant from his girlfriend (Nancy Allen). Because of the nature of being undercover, Burns can't disclose what he is experiencing, seeing, feeling, etc. There are strong hints that Pacino might be experimenting sexually with some of the men in the bars he has frequented and that there might be more then one killer. The movie is extremely ambiguous about the identity of the killer (or killers) and the ending only leaves you more mystified. One of the controversies of the film was that there was 40 minutes of film that was censored and cut out. When director William Friedkin wanted to add the deleted 40 minutes several years later when the film was released on DVD, but the footage was missing. Friedkin has had several explanations on what exactly was in the footage. He has claimed it was just more footage of gay sex in the s&m bars and other times that there was also some scenes suggesting who the killer may or may not be. You have to give Pacino credit for taking on the role even if he probably wasn't the best choice. (Gere had been offered the role but passed). Gay rights groups were justifiably outraged that one the first movies about homosexuals would be a film about a gay man who is so repulsed about his own sexuality that he murders the men he has sex with. Another controversy was the perceived inference that the S&M scene is common among gay men and that they spend their nights partying and having indiscriminate sex. I don't really believe the latter was true, but you can understand why film was so controversial.