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Scarface

1983 DVD Certificate 18.gif
  • Rated:
  • 80
  • from 30,996 members

A tense and violent update of the 1932 Howard Hughes gangster classic with the setting changed from Chicago to Miami. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (.. Read more

Starring Al Pacino, Robert Loggia, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer
Director Brian De Palma
Run time 164 mins
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    This scorching update of Howard Hawks's 1932 classic by director Brian De Palma relocates events to Miami and follows the rapid rise and violent fall of a Cuban refugee turned cocaine-smuggling kingpin. Al Pacino produces one of his finest scenery-chewing performances as the ruthless criminal pursuing the American dream, and he gets top support from Michelle Pfeiffer as his wife, Steven Bauer as his partner in crime and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as his sister. The accurate, if four-letter-word heavy, dialogue and sharp wit in Oliver Stone's script and the vivid cinematography of John A Alonzo help make De Palma's urban shocker a modern-day classic and one of the best movies ever made about the subject. However, some may find its excess in all areas — especially the final massacre that outdoes The Wild Bunch — more off-putting than entertaining.

    • Radio Times
  • "...The most stylish and provocative -- and maybe the most vicious -- serious film about the American underworld since [THE GODFATHER]....Vivid and arresting."

    • New York Times
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  • 25 out of 28 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    You cockaroach!

    Fantastic. This film is by far one of the best movies I have ever seen. The story is a remake of a classic gangster movie, this time round though it is set on the sun washed beaches of Miami.

    Young Antonio Montana has been set free from a Cuban jail and sent to Miami on a boat (this film is based on the Cuban 'Boat Lift', in which Fiedel Castro sent the dregs of his jails over to the US unaware to US officials.

    He soon begins working for a drug kingpin and gets very ambitious!

      • A customer from Manchester, England
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  • 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    THE best film of all time, bar none.

    If you havent yet seen this film and you think you know good movies by watching new, overrated crap, you dont.

    This film is the best film ever made, it has a great story which is also based on reality (though not a true story!) It has the best performance of any actor ive ever seen by far, Al Pacino is absolutely brilliant as the legendary Tony Montana. And the final scene, my oh my, is it also the greatest finale to a movie ever, all down to Al Pacino's great peformance. When this film finished the first time i saw it i was literally lost for words. I knew id just seen the greatest film ever, it seemed so long, as the story follows Tony Montana right from his start in Miami to having everything and then losing it all.

    MUST SEE FILM, NO EXCUSES!!!

      • A customer from Durham, England
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