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This movie is a classic example of a great gangster film. It has everything you can look for in a gangster movie. It s got violence , bad words and drugs. And on top of it , it has a great message about humanity. Now all of that is enough to make you watch this movie. But there is one more thing. AL PACINO! He give a amazing performance as TONY MONTANA! As good as any performance I have seen. And I have seen the godfather. Buy this movie , and if you have any sense in your head you will LOVE IT!

a classic

Hard to believe it took me until now (February 2007) to finally see this excellent movie and witness the brutal language and the violent gun shootings that made Scarface so popular and award-deserving back in the early 80's. I loved this movie.


It really delivers with the action and the characters are all interesting, especially Tony Montana. A movie that deserves to be as lengthy as it is (over 2 hours). Everyone must see Scarface at least once in their lifetime. It won't disappoint. The ending gave me goosebumps it was *that* good and intense. Watch it now.

Scarface

I Just Got This Dvd Of Scarface Today At Walmart For 9 Bucks Can You Believe That I Think Al Pacino Does a Good Job As Tony Or Scarface As We All Know Him This Is a Great Cuban Drama It's Almost Like a City Westren In a Way But Anway Once You Watch The Movie And Get Into The Story You Will Like It Also Pick up For a Dollars More It's a Great Movie From Clint Eastwood Anway Go Pick This Great Movie Up Well Thanks For Reading My Reveiw See You.

FAB DVD

I watched the new DVD in DTS last night and I thought it was amazing. A few people on Amazon were bi*ching about the sound mix. Yes, the dialogue is rough sounding in some spots, but that's part of what makes the film what it is. I really wouldn't want Tony's opening scene to be crystal clear. It has the sound of an old crime film noir from the 40's-- ya get it?? I think that's the point....They did an amazing job with the print & the sound. Really a different experience than the cropped sliced and diced VHS. The film just comes off 100% better when seeing it this way. Gives you a better appreciation of DePalma's vision... Like watching a new movie.A few scenes on the top of my head that come off completely different than the old print: the uprising scene, the bathtub scene & the New York scene. These all play out now on a new level. Much of this has to do with seeing the original 2.35 aspect ratio. And the image & sound is clean.Performances are all memorable -- Pfeiffer & Mastrantonio particularly come off better than in the previous edition I saw. Bauer is great...And Pacino of course is legend now.A lot of people have griped about Moroder's score, but I'm one of those that believes that the score is what lends the film its period authenticity. The only part that's a little cheesy for me is that Highway to the Danger Zone-esuqe montage with the beauty salon/wedding/tiger on a leash thing. I still can't stomach those few minutes- lol.Although this movie received only a few accolades in its day, I believe it will be considered a true classic film. So many movies have been made in history, but only a few endure the test of time. This will be one of them. Like producer Martin Bregman has said, it is the "On the Waterfront" of its day, Pacino is our generation's Brando.And for those of you who are still moaning about the 5.1 mix-- just take a toke and chill out. Enjoy, cause this is American film in its best form...

original vs. new

When you watch the two Scarface movies, you are looking through windows into two very different time periods. The original Scarface, directed by Howard Hawks, we are looking into a time of lack of money and alcohol. When alcohol was made illegal to purchase or sell in the 1920s, so people started dealing it. They would drive up to Canada or down to Mexico and stock up their cars with as much alcohol as they could manage. In the remake, directed by Brian DePalma, we are shown a different kind of dealing to match the era in which it was made. Instead of alcohol, this time it's cocaine. In the early 80s, coke was known as a power drug and was thought not to be harmful or addicting because of the lack of withdrawal symptoms. Through the 70s and early 80s, selling coke was a good business to get into and that is what our protagonist, Tony Montana does.In the 1983 remake of Scarface, we watch Tony Montana through his first and last days in the States. When he arrives in America, he is an immigrant from Cuba hoping to make it big here. His first job to kill Rebenga, while staying in "Little Havana", gets him known and is soon recruited to work for Frank Lopez. But as he starts getting bigger and bigger the power starts to get to him and he starts breaking rule number two: "Don't get high on your own supply." He learns this in the Babylon club. In the Bible it says this about Babylon: "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a habitation of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird…" (Rev 18.2-3). What that passage is saying is that Babylon is a place for all the bad to go. Where sins are committed and for those who commit them to be caged. The club is called Babylon because it is the Babylon of Miami. It's a place for all the evil people of the city to go. The ways we can see this are because of the events that take place over the length of the movie. One of which being the two people, who are working for Frank, try to murder Tony. Also that it is where they all hang out in general and do their dealings. Though the two movies have a lot of differences, one of the similarities is the use of the phrase "The World is Yours". This phrase is what seems to push Tony to succeed. The world is at his fingertips and he just needs to grab it. But whatever he does, it doesn't fill his need for power and respect. And that is what kills Tony Montana. When he does die though, your heart drops. You wanted to see him pull through this and come up on top but in a different way. After seeing what he did in the scene with the kids in the car is when you first discover this feeling of emotion towards Tony even though you've watched him ruin so many lives throughout the film. In the original film, you do not have the same emotions for the original Tony because there is never a scene when we see that he is not a complete animal. Even though both films were amazing, the remake is something that attracts people of this time period because it is reflecting a society that we know and can relate to. When you watch the original Scareface you cannot really connect because the ban on alcohol has been lifted. We connect more when it comes to drugs because it is something that is always around us.

SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND

This movie is a classic. I know that it is a remake of an older film, but I think that this updated version hits the mark. Al Pacino plays TONY MONTANA, a Cuban refugee that becomes the drug czar of Miami in the early 80's. I think that Pacino gives us an outstanding performance as we see his character rise to the top of the drug business and than we see him self-destruct in the final violent, bloody, climatic scene. The movie also boasts another bloody scene that viewers wont forget. It appears in the first 30 minutes or so when a friend of Tony's is massacred using a chain saw in a drug deal gone bad. When this movie first came out, some many people oppossed it because of the violence that it received publicity that only helped to make it even that more popular. We are also given bonus materials that takes us through the making of the film which I think the viewer will find interesting.

Scareface

The movie " Scarface" is derected by Brian De Palma. Scarfase is about a Cuban refugee who builds a powerful cocaine empire throudh a ruthless reign of ultra violence and business savvy.The main character in this film is Tony Montana who believes that "first you get the money, then you get the power and then you get the woman". In the end it all goes up in a hell of bullets and hallfire: Tony Montana was a man so obsessed with the American dream, that he did not realize it had consumed him in every way possible.
The film "Scarface " was very interesting but on the other hand it was scary to watch because there were a lot of actions that involved killing,robbing and a lot of money.

Say Hello my little friend!!

This is one of the best movies ever made. Its a constant adrenaline rush throughout every scene. The accent makes the whole movie, and nobody could have played the part of Antonio Montana better than Al Pacino. This is defanitly his best role ever, and this movie is without a doubt a classic. " All I have in this world is my balls and my word and i dont break them for no one " Long live Antonio Montana.

Being A Gangster Not All Fun-And-Games!

I found this to be an interesting character study of a Cuban who comes to Miami and becomes a big drug dealer, rising from poverty to become a wealthy big-shot....and then destroying himself. The real down side to living the life of crime is detailed in the story. Near the end, Pacino is going to bed each night with a gun under his pillow. Anyone who thinks being a big-time crook is "the life," should watch this film and pay attention.


The movie got panned at the time of its release for its excesses in profanity and violence....but now since we've all become desensitized with decades of this stuff, the film is now almost reaching "cult status." Now those same flip-flop national critics like it. Amazing.

At the time of this movie's release, Al Pacino ("Tony Montana") probably set a new Hollywood record for using the f-word in a mainline film, Now it's topped by anyone who performs in a Martin Scorcese film. Pacino's wife, "Elvira" played by the beautiful Michelle Peiffer, wasn't a lot more clean-mouthed than her husband. She got really brutal as the film wore on.

If that language is no problem for you, you'll find the story quite interesting and a good study of how paranoia must wind up haunting most gangsters.

don't watch this film- just don't

Lets first get one thing straight- this movie is not classy, enjoyable, great or anything else, those who are obsessed with the film will tell you. This film is unpleasant to say the least, after watching the movie for my first and only time I felt morally corrupt and bankrupt, a feeling I have never really experienced before even after seeing the Godfathers, Goodfellas and Donnie Brasco. I'd go as far to say I was almost cheering on the bad guys in them films!

Most of the film was complete, mindless violence. If we're comparing violence, and unpleasant scenes on a scale of 1-10 Scarface is up there at 10, no doubt about it, Goodfellas doesn't even come close. This guy (Al Pacino) is mean, hes pure evil, not your average mob guy- no Henry Hill, no Sonny Corleone even. He makes Joe Pesci's charachter in Goodfellas look like Mother Tresa or Ghandi and no that is not an exhageration! And it over steps the mark, it stops being entertaining, moving it just comes across as being unrealistic and sick.

I hated the soundtrack which was cheap 80's keyboard rubbish, rather than belnd into the background it was firmly in the foreground and got in the way. The combination of the directing, music and acting when Pacino's character goes crazy when he sees a guy with his sister (any guy, even his best friend) is terrible.

His cocaine addiction just over stepped the mark and stopped being entertaing or moving too. Just sick. It was hard to watch some of the scenes and I watch a lot of mob films! and scarface seems to develop an unhealthy sexual thirst for his sister!

Finally (thanks for reading if you've got this far) don't watch this film- just don't (about sums it up)

Awesome

I Love this collectors edition. Everything in it was brand new and untainted. Love it!

UNBELIEVEABLE

No words can describe how great this movie is. It's for the people who liked Al Pacino in the Godfather. Multiply his performance by 20 and you get Tony Montana. Fans of Schwarzenneger will like his quotes, and Tarrantino fans will like the characters. Get past the awful language and sometimes disturbing violence and a good movie lies therin.

Sympathizing with the Bad Man

This film has been endlessly parodied and quoted, and we have seen the repercussions in it in most all parts of our culture -- all for a reason... It is quite an epic, intriguing film focusing around an incredibly magnetic, motivated main character.In many ways one of the best portrayals of 'man against the world,' we sympathize with the political refugee from the beginning until the end, and begin to understand and see the world through his eyes. The genius of the film is that, in addition to being an action film, it does not seem to take on the necessity of most other action films of establishing the main character as an unquestionable hero, but rather it forces the audience to see themselves in and to sympathize with a gangster and a coke dealer. It demands of the audience to see things from another perspective, and to enter another man's world & reality, unlike your typical action film.This is one of the better epics put to film -- I would recommend this to anyone, in general, being quite a complete study of the human condition.

What's with the hype?

Scarface is a decent movie about being at the top. My first thoughts were Pacino playing a drug empire--very interesting combo. I heard great things, saying he was fantastic and it was his best performance.Let's look at the plot for a second--Al Pacino plays a Cuban immigrant who becomes a drug immigrant and then he rises to the top of the world. Wait a minute...didn't James Cagney do this before? Yes he did--and he did it much better.Pacino. He nails his lines perfectly but that accent of his is just plain awful. I'm surprised I'm one of the only ones who feels this way. I found him to be barely convincing that he was Cuban. Michelle Pfeiffer wasn't such a pleasure to watch either. Loggia was decent.The script, as written by Oliver Stone, was very good actually. The movie has some good memorable quotes, i.e. say hello to my little friend, so yes, the script makes it worthwhile. Nice photography as well. The direction is pretty loose at times too. While most will probably state that it's entertaining or one of the best movies ever made, I honestly don't think it's worth more than a 5/10.

For Those Of You...

..who are wondering what "Gangsta Rap" has to do with Scarface..

First of all, when many critics and the public slammed this movie when it came out in 1983, it seemed to enjoy a massive cult following on video in the late 80's, mainly with young, urban rap and hip-hop fans. One of my early jobs years ago was in a popular video store, and we couldn't keep Scarface in the store. In my opinion, if this movie DIDN'T enjoy a second life through video
cult-status, this re-issue wouldv'e NEVER happened (or at least the hype and buzz wouldn't be this large)
Regardless of what many think of the rap/ hip-hop community, Mr. De Palma, Mr. Stone, and Mr. Pacino owes a great deal of gratitude to them.

A great movie from DE PALMA

SCARFACE is one my favorite movies from De Palma who has direceted some great movies.The performance of Al Pacino is incredible and worth a watch.highly recommended.DE PALMA'S IN and TARANTINO'S OUT.

This movie is great

This movie has no flaws! its great in every aspect and i wonder why Imdb doesnt put it in the top 250 Al pacino doesnt only play Tony Montana, He is him i have bought this movie and watch it a lot... The way his foundation falls in the final 20 minutes is breathtaking, when he kills manny is just pure sad, and when Gina wants to kill him is really cool! The ending IS the BEst ending in movie history by far! Great!

Scarface the best movie ever made

Scarface made 1983,I think was the best movie I've ever seen in my lifetime to come.Tony Montana{Al Pacino}is my idol I mean I wish I could be Just like him.I just want to look at the face of death and say yeah so what!

a very successful movie

I am not loving this film because i am a huge Al Pacino fan. Scarface is a film that has the power to make Al Pacino the best actor ever. The accent, music, message are clear and given in an effective way. I can not understand those critics who found Al Pacino's acting in Scarface bad. The posters of the movie are still on the walls. The quotes saying "make the way for the bad guy" or "say hello to my little friend" are all classic. The relationship between Tony and his sister is depicted in a very sensible way. This is one of my all time favorites. American dream could not be depicted better. The rise and fall of Tony Montana is a lesson.

Unrelentingly vile

I am sure that I'll probably get some nasty emails about this one, but I think SCARFACE might just be one of the worst movies of the last 25 years---especially since it is so adored by so many and been so readily accepted as a "great film". It is supposed to be an updated remake of the classic film of the same name from 1932 (starring Paul Muni). Despite this, the movie is sloppy and cheap. Instead of good writing and intelligent film-making, they hired Oliver Stone to write a hackneyed film. The result is a deliberate assault on the sensibilities by using the f-word again and again as well as using extreme and pointless violence throughout. It's easy to say "f---" and the like and it's easy to have millions spent for special effects explosions and gunfire, but these alone do not constitute a good film, as the writing was almost absent in the film and it was just a giant over-the-top parody of gangster films. It's as if DePalma's mantra for the film is "when in doubt, have Pacino say the f-word or have him kill some people". Also, while some have praised Al Pacino's performance, to me it seemed like ridiculous self-parody--like a dirty version of the guy he played in DICK TRACy--which, at least, was SUPPOSED to be a cartoon. None of his brilliance from THE GODFATHER is present, as he plays a buffoon. There is absolutely no subtlety, no finesse and nothing of value in the film. In fact, and I know this will again prompt some nasty emails, I really think the film is intended for a stupid and undemanding audience who actually get off on this sort of brain-rot. Avoid this like the plague--your brain will thank you for this!Ed Wood, Jr. could have made a much better film had he been given this budget.