>70s (Godfather)- 90s (Scent of a Woman)- 00s (Angels in
>America)

So, you give him the over-acting in Scent of a Woman but not in Scarface? See, the coked-out, operatic performance he gave as Tony Montana, when his vision is on the whole world and so his energy must be just as large, makes sense there. In just about every other movie with Pacino that I've seen (The Godfather and Carlito's Way excluded, and maybe Donnie Brasco), his acting calls way too much attention to itself. With Montana, it calls attention to only the extreme mania of the character, and that serves the story in a way a more subdued performance would not.