I absolutely love this movie. I love the relationship Val(Al Pacino) and Doc(Christopher Walken) have in this film, the characters, the emotion, and how it all ends is my favorite. One of my favorite movies ever.
Tho I will admit the pacing is not the best, and some events in the movie were longer than they should have been.
However I think the reason this movie got negative reviews because many "professional critics" thought it was gonna be about the wrong thing. The story of Doc and Val's friendship is amazing and heart-warming and carried the while movie, sure there were other parts of the story that were more interesting, but they nailed it👌