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Scarface (1983)

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Reviews Counted: 39

Fresh: 33

Rotten:6

Average Rating: 7.4/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 50 mins

Genre: Dramas

Box Office: $656,161

Synopsis: Brian De Palma's blood-and-sun-drenched saga of a Cuban deportee's rise to the top of Miami's cocaine business has become something of a popular classic since its release; it's been referenced in... Brian De Palma's blood-and-sun-drenched saga of a Cuban deportee's rise to the top of Miami's cocaine business has become something of a popular classic since its release; it's been referenced in rap songs and subsequent gangster movies and quoted the world over. Despite this lovefest with the dialogue, the film's brutal violence and lack of positive characters still make it controversial and disliked by certain critics. 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 (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) prove his undoing. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Tony's neglected coke-addicted trophy wife, and Steven Bauer is his concerned friend. F. Murray Abraham, Robert Loggia, and Paul Shenar are some of Tony's sleazy business partners and potential killers. Oliver Stone wrote the expletive-packed screenplay, based on Howard Hawks's 1932 version--which was ostensibly about Al Capone and starred Paul Muni and George Raft. The synth-heavy Giorgio Moroder score expertly evokes the drug-fueled decadence of 1980s Miami, and De Palma provides several of his elaborate set pieces, including a horrific showstopper in a motel room with a chain saw. [More]

Starring: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Starring: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia

Director: Brian De Palma

Director: Brian De Palma
Screenwriter: Oliver Stone
Producer: Martin Bregman

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Mar 31, 1998

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04/30/09
James Berardinelli
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Pacino, of course, goes way over the top and through the floor on the other side.

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08/13/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Scarface could be the male moviegoer's answer to Mommie Dearest ... when it's not grotesquely melodramatic, it somehow manages to be incredibly dull.

Full Review Source: DVD Review | comment 7 Comments
07/10/07
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
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N/R

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05/31/07
J.B. Mitchell
Orlando Weekly

Painted in exuberant, extravagant swaths of red, Brian De Palma's foolhardy epic is a thing of delirious grandeur

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08/28/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
N/R

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02/09/06
Derek Adams
Time Out

Ugly and overrated

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10/21/05
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World

What's left to say?

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08/15/05
Bill Clark
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No review available.

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07/29/05
Jake Euker
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No review available.

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06/30/05
Emanuel Levy
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Sometime it fun.

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06/27/05
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Stylish ultra violence = one popular film for many, sad to say.

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06/08/05
Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com

The most frantic and assured film of Brian De Palma's impressive career.

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05/27/05
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

A slyly ironic vision of America’s still-thriving meritocracy.

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05/04/05
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

To be honest, Scarface isn't exactly what you could call a 'good' movie. It's overwritten, overacted and overdirected (not to mention overlong). And yet, against the odds, it still works.

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03/05/05
Ethan Alter
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10/12/04
Frank Swietek
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Pacino, em mais um de seus grandes momentos, transforma Montana em um ícone do gênero e da década de 80, conduzindo um filme que seria fartamente copiado nos anos seguintes.

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05/22/04
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

...Brian De Palma’s criminally over-the-top remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks gangster classic

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02/27/04
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

As time goes by, films like Scarface only gain in their importance.

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02/27/04
Dragan Antulov
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Palpitating with intensity..

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02/24/04
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