Scarface (1983)
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
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Awesome Movie
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
It's a good movie, especially in that era. Watching it a couple times in the past ten years I would say it's a little overrated. I'd swear some people say they love it just because they don't want to feel "uncool".
While other famous titles might first come to mind when thinking of classic gangster/mafia films, 'Scarface' might well have a claim to being the most brutal, over the top and relentlessly violent gangster film ever made. For pure entertainment value I can't think of many better. This film is a total blast, a hugely entertaining piece of cinema and one of the few three hour long films that seems to fly by.If there's one area in which 'Scarface' is lacking, however, it has to be the rather generic and predictable plot. The focus in this film is very much on the action and violence and, at times, it feels like the plot isn't given much thought, or at least it isn't the priority. That takes nothing away from the enjoyment of 'Scarface' though, which is a true gangster classic and unquestionably one of the best films of the 80s.
A bloody and violent rags to riches story about a Cuban immigrant and how it all ends. Pacino was the perfect choice to play Tony Montana, nobody swears like him! Even though he is clearly a bad man, he still has his own sense of honor and is likeable. It's easy to wish for him to succeed.. Soundtrack has kind of become part of the pop culture!
While the story has been done before, since, and better, I can't deny calling this a classic, if not the movie that captured the 80s as a whole. If you've seen one movie like this, you've kinda seen them all. Guy wants power, guy gets power and then loses it, but it's the journey to get there that's important. Even though there are no real heroes here, aside from Gina and Tony's mom, you still root for Tony. Even as the power goes to his head, and he starts to think he can get away with anything, you still root for him. Even though you can see the ending coming a mile away, and you know no one is gonna come out of this tragedy in good shape, the movie's still engaging. Do I need to start quoting the movie? Or name off how many memorable scenes are in it? Or the impact it's had on pop culture as a whole? No, but what I can do, is applaud everyone involved, as they captured the tone and atmosphere, and politics of the 1980s like no other. I might like other movies from the 80s more than this, but I do believe that this is the movie of the decade. A macabre, ultraviolent, ultra-vulgar, tragic, tour de force.