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Scarface
Way back 1980, Scarface follows the greed of one man as he took over a drug cartel in Miami.
1946
5 November 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 July 1944, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
May 25, 1927 in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, USA
24 October 1939, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
22 January 1931, Astoria, New York, USA
16 April 1935, Manhattan, New York, USA
23 December 1951, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
July 30, 2014
Characterization and plot go out the window. Arms are cut off with chain saws. By the third hour everything is out of control.
December 11, 2013
By ignoring its massive, toxic, nuclear-fallout shortcomings, it finds its way to the hallowed status of camp classic.
January 03, 2014
One fundamentally dishonest character choice launched a billion-dollar industry. But it hardly sours a film that became a garishly ghoulish, bleakly funny and compulsively watchable template for modern-criminal deconstructions of the American Dream.
March 24, 2016
De Palma directs it as a blood-drenched thug opera, a mix of the graceful and the garish with Pacino's guttural thug-in-a-suit spitting out dialogue like broken glass in a harsh Cuban accent.
July 29, 2014
[Brian DePalma] apparently considers ''money isn't everything'' an original and profound message.
April 30, 2009
Viewed today, while Scarface seems less shocking than it did during its initial theatrical run, it's no more substantive or interesting.
July 30, 2014
The sharp, if expletive-ridden, dialogue in Oliver Stone's script and the vivid cinematography of John A Alonzo help make De Palma's urban shocker a modern-day classic.
December 09, 2015
Stone sticks all too closely to the dated plot structure of the original movie, and such melodramatic flourishes as Montana's incestuous attraction for his sister now seem completely ludicrous.
February 21, 2007
As stylized social realism gives way to wigged-out Faustian fantasy, the would-be devastating effects have an oddly slapstick effect.
February 09, 2006
An unashamed study of selfish, sadistic criminality, and all the better for it.
February 23, 2012
Performances are all extremely effective, with Pacino leading the way.
July 30, 2014
It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where nightmares strut in $800 suits and Armageddon lies around the next twist of treason.
