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Summary: Great, Great Movie
Review: A fantastic movie. Would have been a five star, but o the horror, the horror what a score. I know it was the 80's but the music and that synthesizer generated recurring theme is unforgivable
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Summary: PACINO CEMENTS HIS PLACE WITH THE GREATS
Review: Al Pacino's hypnotic portrayal of Cuban refugee-turned Miami druglord I think could be what lands him in the hall of fame with the greatest movie stars of all time. Single handedly, he turned a very simple, predictable, sometimes disappointing plot into a landmark of the crime drama genre. Having criticised the plot, it is enough to keep you interested, but it's the acting that will blow you away. The amazing Pacino aside, I was particularly impressed by the performances of the two mob bosses that Tony Montana (Pacino) is brought into the business by: Robert Loggia is superb as Frank Lopez, the veteran Miami bigshot that Tony ends up assassinating; and the equally impressive man who plays Sosa, the South American based drug producer who sends a 50 man hit-squad to Montana's mansion to finish him off. That ending sequence through the emotional demise of Montana's sister, Gina, to the wild machine gun brawl is the most memorable part of the film, other than Pacino of course.
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Summary: Review From A Teenager
Review: I'm 16 years old, and i thought a lot of you might want a teen's perspective on this film. I first saw it when i was like, 8, but didn't understand it, so i decided to re-watch it a couple weeks ago. This movie is incredible. Al Pacino pulls off a cuban so well, i couldn't believe it. Thismovie is packed with some of the coolest scenes out of any movie. There's also a lot of dark humor tucked in some scenes. There is no other way to describe this movie, except incredible. It's a little on the gory side, but, all women i've known who have seen it have loved it. Michelle Pfiefer is incredible in this movie, but, she's always pretty good. WOW... WOW, If You Haven't Seen This, Check It Out!!
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Summary: Pacino Was Robbed!
Review: Even though it appears I'm about the 3,000th person to weigh in with a review of this underrated gem, here goes... Not only is it a disgrace that Al Pacino didn't win an Oscar for his gritty, balls to the wall performance as a Cuban-refugee-turned-Miami-hood, he wasn't even nominated! Back in the mid-80's, when my hometown first got cable, it seemed as if "Scarface" was on 24 hours a day, a constant and somewhat fascinating primordial ooze of blood, cocaine, and the F-word. For a while, my friends and I took to talking like Pacino's Tony Montana, in some sort of twisted homage to his performance for the ages. Clutch this video closely to your heart. In the politically correct environment we now find ourselves shackled with, Hollywood will never make another one like it.
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Summary: Quality film, nice extras, poor transfer to DVD
Review: I won't speak to the quality of the film: Many others here have done so, and the debate will rage whether it's a modern masterpiece or overblown tripe.Suffice to say that it *is* a significant film, and that the extras on this DVD are quite nice (outtakes, interviews). However -- and this is a BIG however -- the quality of this transfer to DVD leaves a lot to be desired. It really looks like they simply took the old composite master for the LD release and used it for the DVD. The colors bleed into one another, and solid color areas are often murky and noisy. This can be verified on any well-calibrated NTSC monitor, using a quality DVD player connected via component cables.
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Summary: A must see movie.......
Review: I had been told by many that Scarface was an excellant movie so I picked it up the other day and watched it. This movie is an excellant movie. Al Pacino's acting in this film is incredible and nobody can deny that. If you like films with a lot of good "one liners" that you can walk around and quote with a bunch of your friends than this is what you are looking for as long as you don't mind the language and the violence. It is not a happy film, it is very depressing, which is why many of the people here give it a bad rating. If you pay attention to the movie it will make good sense. It is a 1983 movie and it certainly beats alot of todays movies. Watch this movie and then try a recent movie released in 2000, I think you will feel that you are being deprived of the entertainment you deserve.
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Summary: A "seventies film"
Review: I have no idea why this film is so praised. But then admittedly I have a problem with older films, especially from the seventies. It may be the lack of work with the pictures, they tend to look like documentaries.
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Summary: Dust Off "Blow" and Don't Get Stuck in "Traffic"...
Review: ....and even Paulie in "Goodfellows" must've known. This is still the best of the cocaine drug lord moovys ever made, if only for Pacino's ultraelectronic depiction of the refugee who has enuff malice and nefariousness to go to the top of that world. Memorable scenes: the chainsaw attack and the last stand at the mansion....
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Summary: A complete waste of three hours
Review: I was so excited about seeing Brian De Palma's "Scarface" just because everybody I know who saw it said it was a great movie. My Mom said it was great. My friends at school said it was great. I had high expectations just because the front cover of Al Pacino holding the gun in a white suit looked so menacing and defiant. And as I watched this slow, boring, hugely flawed three hour catastrophe, all hope was lost. The ONLY good thing that barely saves this so-called "epic" is Al Pacino's delirious, over-the-top performance as the very dumb Cuban drug lord Tony Montana. Throughout the movie, he keeps wondering why everybody betrays him. Well, it's pretty obvious...he's nothing more than a hot-tempered fool who constantly makes stupid decisions and somehow becomes Miami's cocaine king. NOTHING is great about this movie!! The use of the synthesizer as a musical score (courtesy of Donna Summer's producer Giorgio Moroder) is very lame. The supporting performances by Michelle Pfiffer, Steven Bauer, and Mary Elizabeth Monstrantonio serve no purpose; they're not allowed to breathe life into their roles. They just sit there like the cardboard characters they are so the plot can drag on. The bloody confrontation scenes are predictable and disappointing. Reviewers keep saying this movie is really violent, and sometimes it is. But believe me, I've seen worse ("The Wild Bunch" is a great example). Overall, this is a terrible film. Although there are a couple of one-liners that made me laugh, it's not enough to redeem it. The music is God-awful, the acting is bad, and the story is poorly constructed. Whoever says this movie is great has been completely lobotomized. If you want to see a great gangster epic, watch "Goodfellas" or the first two "Godfather" pictures. "Scarface" is one of the most overly hyped films ever and one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
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Summary: The problems with this movie:
Review: The only bad reviews that I see on this site for this movie are regarding its violence and bad language. This is not what is wrong with this film. The plot is what is wrong with this film! There is no more violence and bad language in this movie, than in any other crime flic. Here are the problems with the plot (or lack of): -Campy 80's music and keyboard sound effects give the movie a cheesy Miami Vice feel. -Tony Montana is a Cuban name? -Michelle Pfeiffer plays a 1-dimensional character who is a selfish b****. There is no character development and she becomes very annoying very fast! -The movie jumps to a scene where Tony just happens to be counting money in front of undercover federal agents. No explanation is given as to how he met these agents. I mean, if you were going to count illegal money infront of someone, wouldn't you want to know them quite well? Anyways, he gets busted. As a result from his bust, he goes to Columbia to get some help from his associates (the feds want to put him in prison). His associates will get him off the hook if he helps take care of someone in NewYork. Ok, sounds reasonable huh? Well, it turns out that you can't hire people in the US to kill (well according to the movie's logic), so they have to bring back some scary-looking / mad scientist guy (who doesn't speak a word of english and sticks out like a sore thumb) to do the job. So Tony, the now billionaire drug lord, is driving around in a station wagon (Tony's driving) trying to kill some guy. Now if you had all of that money, wouldn't you hire someone to do this, to keep your hands clean? The scary-looking guy plants a wad (and I mean wad) of C4 explosives under the guys car. We see this guy driving around with a wad of C4 the size of a football under his car. Now I would assume that in the real world they would fall off due to the weight. Now get this! They don't rig the explosives up with a timer or rig them up to the ignition of the guys car... they have it rigged to a remote control and they must follow this guy's car to make sure that he doesn't get out of the range of the remote!!! Tony ends up shooting the scary-looing guy in broad daylight (in the middle of NewYork city) because he didn't want him to blow up the man while his familly was in the car. Here's a contradiction... a ruthless killer with a conscience and morals. The movie then forgets all about the part in the plot where Tony is supposed to go to prison. I guess the feds don't care too much about major drug lords. Come to think of it, we don't see too much of the feds in this movie. -The final scene where Tony's sister comes in out of nowhere, wearing only an open nightgown and talking about incest was quite idiotic to say the least. -The gansters climbing over the walls with ropes in the final scenes... Is this Batman? It was like watching "Enter the Dragon". -The dozens of gansters in Tony's house at the end. Where did all these guys come from? This is where the movie turns to Rambo and Tony pulls out his M16 and start killing people in masses. It may sound funny... but try watching this mess of a plot for three hours!
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