Scarface

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Summary: no man not in the car
Review: was it as good as paul munis i dont know i never saw that one but this one is quite good watch for that infamous chainsaw scene that some people just cant get enough of

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Summary: A very good movie.
Review: Wow. First of all, let me just tell you it's not as bloody as some reviewers say it is. But I guess that could just be me. But the last seven minutes are more violent than any other movie in full-length. Also there's just too much swearing... in the last half an hour it reaches about three swears per second. But it is still a film-making classic... and I think Al Pacino is more believable in Scarface than in The Godfather( and that's really saying something).

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Summary: AL PACINO'S FAVORITE ROLE!!!!! A MUST HAVE!!!!!
Review: On Barbra Walter's interview with Al Pacino several years ago she said that this was Pacino's favorite role. But this film stands on its own despite this proclamation. This is an underworld's rags to riches story with one of the greatest endings to a film ever!

Pacino plays a Cuban refugee thug , Tony Montana , who claws and scracthes(taking some lives along the way) to the top of the cocaine world in Miami with the help of his right hand man Manny Ray(Steven Bauer).

Pacino plays this part with such passion and energy that he absolutely fuels this film from beginning to end. You can't take your eyes off the man. He adds humanistic dimensions to Tony Montana. He shows Montana's humor , machismo , intelligence , leadership , guts , and flaws. He even shows Montana's tender side(the scene with Michelle Pfeiffer at poolside). Pacino actually gets you to like a character who is basically a sleezeball. Now that is acting!

There are memorable moments throughout this film and some are very graphic but what is probably the highlight moment of this film is the great shoot 'em up scene at the end ; Sosa's hitmen infiltrating Montana's estate to kill him because Montana botched a major hit for Sosa. When Montana , full of cocaine , finally refocus his attention to the hitmen he fights back in complete defiance to them with a machine gun/grenade launcher. "Say hello to my little friend!" is now one of those famous movie lines of film history. He blast them away like dominoes , withstanding the awesome gunfire because of the cocaine in his system. This is a real "guy's" scene. It's action fueled by high octane adrenaline and Pacino plays it beyond belief. His performance is so elating that you want to grab a machine gun and fight along side him. Pacino IS Scarface!

The DVD comes with great perks like theatrical trailers , production notes , cast and filmaker bio's , the making of SCARFACE(with Pacino) , and 10 outtakes from the film. The film is letterboxed but is not digitally enhanced. It would've been nice to see the film enhanced but it doesn't hurt the experience of watching this film. In fact I don't really care. It's SCARFACE!

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Summary: Breathtaking!
Review: A penniless,immigrants climb from the bottom of the social ladder to the top rung as a top cocaine dealer in Miami, this movie reigns supreme!! It took me a long time to see it, especially being told that it was about 3 hours long. I bought the DVD and re-discovered why I love Pacino. He paints a beautiful picture of Tony Montana, drug kingpin who gets in over his head. With a beautiful wife, Elvira, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, this movie is perfect all the way to the bloody end. And even gave birth to the classic phrase," Say 'ello to my lil friend." This movie is phenomenal!!

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Summary: Excess as Hilarious Obscenity
Review: Aside from Blue Velvet, one of the masterpieces of the eighties, DePalma's '83 gangster spectacle, Scarface, may well be a near perfect cinematic metaphor for the excesses of the Reagan era. Over-the-top, with a tastelessness bordering on the hilariously obscene, Scarface is that rare maverick film that offers up cult-like pleasures in a big budget studio package. Mixing elements of Brecht, 30's - style gangster drama, and South American B soap opera, Scarface, a film never flinching from outrageous form, is a dead-on social and aesthetic critique of corrupt early 80's US culture. Mordantly witty and still compulsively watchable almost twenty years later, Scarface is a movie that makes no apologies.

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Summary: A Poor Movie That Is Crude Enough To "Scar" A Viewer
Review: I saw Brian DePalma's "Scarface" in a theater when I was a big fan of violent action movies. "Scarface" is one of DePalma's very worst movies.

Cuban refugee Tony Montana(Al Pacino) becomes a drug dealer in Florida. Montana rises to power as a cocaine kingpin but his success is only short-lived.

"Scarface" is Brian DePalma's second worst film after "Raising Cain." The viewers don't develop any real concern for Al Pacino's character. In such masterpieces as "Carrie" and "Dressed To Kill," DePalma brilliantly combined lurid sexual motifs with the graphic violence taking place in the films. In "Scarface," DePalma attempts to interweave themes regarding incest into the violent storyline but these efforts are hollow and heavy-handed. DePalma's film is raunchy and crude to the point of being farcical. The movie probably has more swearing than any film in the history of cinema. As a crime film, "Scarface" has none of the decency and intelligence that is evident in the work of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. One of the movie's few redeeming features is an AWESOME one-man-versus-an-entire-army action sequence towards the end of the film.

"Scarface" is nothing more than a foul-mouthed, trashy, and forgettable film. The movie is only for diehard Al Pacino fans, people who merely want to see violent action, and those who feel that they need to see every Brian DePalma film. For DePalma's best crime film, see "The Untouchables."

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Summary: scarface 1983
Review: Set in the sun-washed shores of Miami SCARFACE tells the tale of Antonio Montana,a smalltime cuban refugee hoodlum who makes his way to miami during Castro's jail evacuation in the spring of 1980.The film shows the rise Tony makes to the top of the Miami drug underworld and his subsequent fall because of bad decision making on his part due to his drug addiction. AL pacino delivers one of his greatest performances in this 1983 classic. The score for this film (done by Giorgio Moroder) is one of the greatest film scores I have ever heard.In the film Giorgio assigns music to each of the main characters(Tony,Gina,Elvira,and Alahandro Sosa)and playsit during critical moments in the film having to do with the character.This and other aspects of the film make it definately one of directer Brian DePalma's greatest masterpieces.

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Summary: scarface 1983
Review: AL pacino delivers one of his greatest performances in this 1983 classic. The score for this film (done by Giorgeo Moroder) is one of the greatest film scores I have ever heard. This film is definately one of Brian DePalmas greatest masterpieces.

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Summary: The world is yours...
Review: Well, if you are considering to buy or rent this title; i say don't listen to those who say the film is nothing but crap, however don't fall to the ones who praise it so high either. It is something like there is nothing in this film so extraordinary that your life will never be the same again after watching it; yet it can i believe beat the most, if not every film made in last 10 years in this cathegory. The movie is about this guy, Antonio Montana, immigrates from Cuba to Florida; chooses a life of crime and slowly climbs the stairs to the top. This will make the movie sound like another basic, dull film but it is not; because this almost 3 hour film not only involves Tony's romance life, relations with his mother & sister and a long hard fight he struggles; it also deals with deep social problems, such as immigration problem, drug problem and most importantly, the effect of drug money on crimeworld. The film has some striking moments, like Tony killing his best man on account of his sister. But my favorite is the scene where he gives a speech to a restaurantfull of people about the importance of "bad guys", with a drunk head. On the other hand, the film is not perfect; i'm also of the opinion that film is longer than necessery, and the F word is used rather excessively. But as it says in the movie, "Nothing exceeds like excess". To sum up, if you are into Al Pacino or wiseguy movies, don't miss this one. If not, watch the trailer first to get an idea.

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Summary: Great movie HORRIBLE DVD TRANSFER
Review: what is up with the transfer-one of the worst of any dvd I have ever seen, it's jittery, shifts colors, BAD QUALITY. I have talked to many people who have this dvd and they say the same thing.