The greatest film ever made!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (24 June 2011)

In my opinion, this is the greatest film of all time. It is my favourite all time film. Al Pacino gives the greatest performance of all time in this film. He plays the ruthless gangster Tony Montana (aka Scarface). The only film that has come very close to this one, is Martin Scorseses amazing masterpiece Goodfellas (that is my opinion).
Michelle Pfeiffer gives the best performance of her acting career as the lonely wife of Tonys. Steven Bauer gives a brilliant performance as Tonys best friend Manny. He provides the films most upsetting scene when Tony kills hims. I know Tony felt betrayed by manny sleeping with Tonys sister, but murder was WAY out of the line. Manny actually loved his sister so they could of had a great future together. Tonys sister Gina is played excellently by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Robert Loggia portrays Frank Lopez amazingly. The entire cast is amazing. Paul Gives a scary performance as the evil Alex Sosa.
The film is very anti-drugs. It does not glorify cocaine use at all!!! It also has many social messages that any cocaine user should check out. The film stormed a huge amount of controversy upon its initial release. Hardly any film critics gave the film a positive review. I am grateful that Roger Ebert gave the film a full star rating though. He is the most important film critic in my mind. The film was originally rated X by the MPAA. Director Brian De Palma had to censor the film three times. All received X ratings. In the end he brought in a huge panel of experts to view the film and in the end the vote was 18 to 2 of getting the third cut a R rating. However, Brian De Palm submitted the full uncut version with the R rating to Universal, and since they didn't know the difference between the uncut version and the censorsed version, he submitted the full uncut edition.
Buy the big 2 disc special edition of this film. The bonus disc contain a 3 part behind the scenes documentary about the detailed history of them remaking Scarface, hiring the cast and the aftermath. There is a short documentary on the TV version of Scarface. Most of the swearing was dubbed over by pointless words which actually made the film really funny and most of the violence was also cut. There is a documentary on how important the film has been in the Hip Hop world. Many famous hip op artists appear in this documentary. It is excellent. There are also loads of deleted scenes (some which are actually quite good). and trailers.
I haven't seen the original but I love this film!!! Oliver Stone, great script.
BBFC Consumer advice: rated 18 for strong language, sex references, bloody violence and hard drug use.