
Variety
Scarface is a grandiose modern morality play, excessive, broad and operatic at times.
Full reviewAl Pacino is Tony Montana the Brian De Palma-directed, Oliver Stone-scripted crime classic. Montana is a Marielito freed from Fidel Castro's jails and sent to Florida along with the political prisoners taken in by the Carter administration. After a harrowing introduction to the US coke business he makes his way swiftly up the crime ladder, ruthlessly squashing anyone who dares to stand in his way.
Scarface is a grandiose modern morality play, excessive, broad and operatic at times.
Full reviewIt is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where nightmares strut in $800 suits and Armageddon lies around the next twist of treason.
Full reviewScarface is the most stylish and provocative - and maybe the most vicious - serious film about the American underworld since Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather."
Full reviewScarface is one of those special movies, like "The Godfather," that is willing to take a flawed, evil man and allow him to be human.
Full reviewPerfomances are excellent, and despite its moralistic conclusion, the film has since become de rigueur viewing for crack barons, who know a good shoot-em-up when they see one.
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