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Summary: Say Hello To My Little Friend!
Review: Al Pacino possible the best actor of all time takes on the role of Tony Montana (Scarface). Michelle Phiffer makes her acting debute in this film also.Tony Montana is a political refugee from the country of Cuba and comes to Miami and is forced into a cagged community in 1983. He gets a job to kill the person in charge of the rufugees when a riot breaks out and Tony escapes. Tony does a series of small time jobs untill he meets up and joins the druglord of Miami's crew. Tony slowly becomes his own boss and rises to the top. Tony takes Michelle Phiffer away from his former boss, marries her, and later has to kill him. Tony reunites with his sister gives her money but noboady is to good for her. Tony now buys his own mansion and sercurity system and is making to much money the bank can't even hold it and is getting to caught up in drugs. Michelle leaves Tony and Tony kills his best friend because he and Tony's system elopped. Tony owes a druglord from Cuba a favor but he dosen't come through with it. So he sends a ton of his men to Tony's manshion and they kill his crew and his sister. Tony is now to dopped up to even know whats going on but he takes out his assalt rifle/grande luncher and puts up a pretty good fight but in shot in the back and killed in the famous final scene. This movie is in the top five for the best movies of the 80's. Al Pacino gives one of his best performences ever. This DVD edition has good extras with interviews with the cast and much more. Overall this is a great movie. This is a must for any movie collector.
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Summary: Good extras; mediocre transfer
Review: There is no denying that Brian DePalma's Scarface is well designed. Consider the pivotal nightclub sequence, where Tony Montana (Al Pacino) is shaken down by a crooked cop, covets his boss's girlfriend, displays an unhealthy jealousy of his sister's flirtations with a flashy lowlife, and then is almost assassinated by a couple of guys with machine guns - all in the space of a few minutes. Oliver Stone's screenplay tosses all of these elements into the air like brightly colored rubber balls. DePalma juggles them deftly with his ever-mobile camera. The actors help make it all gel by turning in solid performances. Yet, there are things subtly wrong with it - from the nightclub comedian (Richard Belzer) not quite making sense with his monologue, to the extras all looking like they're watching different shows - their reactions wildly differing in tone and timing. If all this seems like nitpicking, check out a scene from any film by Kubrick or Kurosawa. It will almost certainly hold up to greater scrutiny.
Despite these reservations, I like Scarface quite a bit. It is a good example of slick, modern cinematic storytelling, with a lot of character development happening visually (if, at times, a bit awkwardly - like the "jealousy" stuff: a tight close up Al Pacino's eyes as he looks at his sister, while Giorgio Moroder makes weird noises on the soundtrack. Uh, right). The new documentary on the making of Scarface is nicely made, with a lot of revealing interview material with DePalma himself. If you listen closely, he even obliquely calls himself a "great director". That's forgivable - a huge ego is a definite asset for an auteur. Less forgivable is the dismal film transfer, with its milked out blacks, obvious compression artifacts, lack of detail, visible grain, and plain old letterboxed (rather than anamorphic) widescreen. It seems almost inconceivable that Universal would foot the expense for decent supplemental material, then stick us with what looks like a badly compressed analog telecine transfer from the 80's. Whatever you think of Scarface, it is one of the most influential films of the past 20 years. It deserved better.
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Summary: My favorite film of all time
Review: I saw this film in the theatres when it was released in December 1983 and was blown away. It does not lose any impact moving from the big screen to the small screen, as the screenplay by Oliver Stone (just a few years before he wrote directed Platoon) still keeps me riveted to my seat- the performances, and the direction from Brian de Palma are overwhelming- a tour de force in entertainment. If I owned just one film, this would be the one. The violence and language is not for the meek and mild, but the picture hangs together because of the strong acting abilities of Pacino and his co-stars, who are all perfectly cast. I think this is Pacino's best role, and is a little better than the remake of this film, also by Brain de Palma, from 1993 titled "Carlito's Way", starring Penelope Ann Miller.
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Summary: Sanitarium...not Sanitation
Review: "Sanitation..I told you to say you was in a sanitarium..,not sanitation.. "I told you to tell them you was in a sanitarium,you had TB and you was cured". Best line in the movie.
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Summary: Pacino At His Finest !!
Review: NO MOVIE EVER-MADE, NOW, OR IN THE FUTURE MAKING CAN EVER COMPARE TO SUCH A SURREAL MOVIE AS "SCARFACE." THIS MOVIE HAS HAD SUCH AN EFFECT ON MY LIFE BECAUSE OF THE CUBAN CHARACTER "TONY MONTANA" PORTRAYED BY AL PACINO. I HAVE SEEN ALMOST ALL OF PACINO'S FILMS AND IN NO WAY DO THEY COMPARE TO SUCH AN INTENSE AND POWERFUL MOVIE AS THIS ONE. IT IS SO HARD TO SEPARATE PACINO FROM "TONY" IN THIS MOVIE THAT'S HOW GOOD HE IS. EVERYTHING THAT "TONY" SAYS IN THIS MOVIE IS GOLDEN AND I JUST LOVE TO HEAR HIM SPEAK BECAUSE THIS MOVIE IS FILLED WITH SO MUCH LIVELY, YET VULGAR QUOTES THAT MAKE ME WANT TO GET UP AND ACT LIKE HIM. THIS IS, INDEED, PACINO AT HIS FINEST IN HIS MOST OPEN AND SPLENDIDLY RAUNCHY CHARACTER. "YOU NEED PEOPLE LIKE ME..." WE DO NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE PACINO IN FILMS.
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Summary: A MASTERPIECE! NEVER CAN SEE THIS MOVIE TOO MANY TIMES!
Review: To say Scarface is a masterpiece is an understatement! The brilliance of Al Pacino's (Tony Montana) acting is breath taking. The movies storyline is great, but I think the greatest part is the directing. Brian De Palma has great vision, and if you havent seen Scarface, watch it, I guarantee you will understand how to appreciate great acting, superb casting, and even better directing! Scarface is an owner for any Pacino fan!!!
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Summary: ultimate depalma/ultimate pacino
Review: When I first saw this movie 11 years ago on video, I really did not care for it that much. However, when I watched it on dvd last March, I went out and bought it the next day! Not only was I reminded of how great this film was, but realized how great Pacino is at playing a bad guy.This film also renforces my opinion that Brian DePalma is absolutley the greatest filmaker alive!However the squeamish should be warned that even though this film is almost 20 years old, it still stands as one of the most violent films ever made
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Summary: Wow..what a powerful moview..truly a pleasant suprise
Review: Way back when I was a "child," I wouldn't have enjoyed this film. But now I realize that a person has to be in a certain mindset while watching this film. I am a fan of the mob scene but have never watch a good mob movie until I saw Scarface. I believe that the sound track to the movie was the secret ingrediant. This plus Al Pacino's powerful and throughly convincing acting made Scarface into a movie that hits you with an entire ensemble of emotions. This is a Very Very powerful movie that will satisfy you and make you think, "How did I not see this movie earlier?" quotes: "SAY HELLO TO Mah LITTLE FRIEND!"-Tony The World Is Yours...
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Summary: al pacino at his best
Review: Loved this movie. Very colorful, intense and exciting. Al Pacino is terrific as Tony Montana and shows many different sides to the character. Even though he's a gangster, he comes across as likeable. Parts of the movie were hilarious and I don't think all of it was really meant to be taken seriously. Also has a very good supporting cast. Some great acting and a thoroughly enjoyable movie.
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Summary: More Than the Sum of It's Mediocre Parts
Review: The film's plot is absurd: Al Pacino goes from being a homeless political refugee with no connections to being a filthy rich drug czar in... LESS THAN ONE YEAR! It's hard to tell exactly how long it takes, because the film jumps haphazardly forward in time, making the timeline very difficult to determine, follow, or understand. The characters and acting are inconsistent: one second Pacino is a cunning, dangerous, ambitious, and even intelligent criminal, while the next second he appears to be a mentally retarded person (this is not explained away by the drug use that goes on). It's downhill from there with regard to the other characters, who are given practically nothing to work with in terms of development. The violence is absurd and inconsistent: Does the idea of a small army (seemingly innumerable) of guerilla warriors swinging in on ropes and attacking Pacino's Miami mansion, sound reasonable to you? How about Pacino then killing 20-30 of them single handedly with his "big gun"? That formidable paramilitary force of Bolivian enforcers portrayed in the movie, btw, had only about 12 hours notice to prepare for their assault and travel to Miami (according to the convoluted plot of the film). The same cartel that could mobilize these hundreds of para-military enforcers in less than twelve hours, was earlier forced to enlist the help of Pacino and his six man gang of (seemingly) retarded people to help them carry out a single small-time assassination in the USA. The film's portrayal of drug addiction is ridiculous and inane. Pfeiffer lays out the fattest strings of coke that i have ever seen portrayed on a film, and vacuums them down in one quick snort. At other times she just keeps snorting coke continually for what seems like minutes... "sniff, sniff, sniff, sniff, sniff, sniff," ... and it goes on like that. Later in the film, Pacino shoves his head into a gallon sized pile of coke and snorts for all he is worth. There are so many bad things about this movie, that i think an "etc" will suffice to end this section of the review. Basically, this film is one long ...-fest. It does have some scenes that are nice if they are isolated from the rest of the movie, and all the mediocrity and and inconsistency in every aspect of the film (characters, plot, music, cinematography, etc.) blends together into a sometimes compelling whole. The film's single bonus is Michelle Pfeiffer's remarkable portayal of cold statuesque beauty (everything else about her character, however, is just more mediocrity).
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