Argueably one of the greatest crime movies ever made!

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 1999)

"Scarface" is probably the best crime movie ever made. I was unsure of what to make of it before I finally sat down and watched it. It seemed like a long mafia epic. It is long, but never boring, and it's not quite a "mafia movie", like you would expect from films like "The Godfather" and "Goodfellas". It's more about the drug underworld that shoots people, or low life scumbags on top of the world, before swallowing them up in destruction. I have read that this is a remake of "Scarface", which came out in the 1930's. I have absolutely no interest in seeing that version, because it's impossible to top Al Pacino's "Tony Montana"! Pacino and director Brian De Palma make an excellent filmmaking team, and luckily we got to see them work again in "Carlito's Way". "Scarface" is not only a brilliant film, it's EXTREMELY realistic, and I mean extreme! I also have read that there was a battle between Brian De Palma and the MPAA over the film's realistic violence. You know what though, if the MPAA did in fact censor "Scarface", they failed in succeeding to lessen the impact the movie has on it's audiences. They could take out as much violence as they wanted to, and I still think that the power of "Scarface" would remain the same. I only wish I could see a film like "Scarface" on the big screen. That would be so awesome! It's too bad that movies on a long, epic scale as "Scarface" are rarely made anymore.