So good it's scary

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 2004)

Scarface is as savage as they say and much more. It's the one role which you can't imagine Al Pacino playing. This was his comeback film after a short break and what it comeback film it is. I think when Pacino leaves the ungodly earth and people talk about the role he will be remembered for, a lot will say Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy but I will remember him as Tony Montana in Scarface. It is a gangster film where there is no good guys and bad guys just bad ass gangsters with no care in the world but to get rich. Tony Montana reminds me of a new generation version of The Sheriff of Nottingham from Robin Hood as he is just unpredictable and scandalous . But there are bits where Tony's real personality can be seen whenever he is around his sister Gina played by a young Mary Elizabeth Mastrintonio and you see in his eye even though he is wrongly in love with his younger sibling you see a glimmer of hope and love which makes you realise that Tony is a man that only wants to be shown love and care but has had a bad child hood by getting in the wrong crowd but it's nice to see Brain De Palma show you this side to him as it shows his human side instead of his menacing one.
The story is straight forward as one can be, the movie is more like a biopic than an intellectual plot. It's like a rise and fall from grace but in Tony's case from Cuba.
Scarface is one of the best Gangster films ever but it's a Gangster film on a different scale to any other I have ever seen. It is as good as they say.