Variety
Scarface is a grandiose modern morality play, excessive, broad and operatic at times.
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Scarface (1983)
Al 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.
1983Rating: R18+170 minsUSA
DramaThrillerClassic
- Director:
- Brian De Palma ('Carrie', 'Dressed to Kill')
- Writer:
- Oliver Stone
- Cast:
- Al PacinoSteven BauerMichelle PfeifferMary Elizabeth MastrantonioRobert Loggia
Scarface (1983) / Reviews
Time Magazine
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.
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The New York Times
Scarface is the most stylish and provocative - and maybe the most vicious - serious film about the American underworld since Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather."
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Roger Ebert
Scarface is one of those special movies, like "The Godfather," that is willing to take a flawed, evil man and allow him to be human.
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Empire Magazine
Perfomances 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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