While I liked it...

Rating: 7/10 (24 September 2010)

I also had some issues against it.
Seeing this last night on the movie channel, and of course owning it, and also owning the script, I think it is a good film.
It could have been better as well..
After Tony and Manny quit their dish-washing jobs and after being in the US for a few weeks, they don't seem to be hard up for cash - even before taking on their new found careers as drug dealers.
When they snort coke...and lots of it, they don't seem to get high...or if they are, they don't seem to change in any respect.
Now if I were to stick my face in a bag of coke and inhale, my eyes would be red, my nose would be stuffed and my head would be focked...but that is not the case with any of the actors who partake in the fine recreational medication of coca.
They just seem the same - and that does not fare to be realistic at all. They should have been wired, yappy, schizo, psycho and neurotic, but they weren't.
Also - when Frank Lopez is about to be killed in his dealership, he crawls on his knees and begs to Tony, offering to pay him $10 000 000 not to be killed.
That was just absurd...he whined like a baby...the guy was a high-roller and just caved in too fast...it didn't quite fit his character.
With all the attention that Tony made in the bar and in the restaurant, nobody said anything...just not real.
It was good, but as good as it was, it could have been better...
However, it had some awesome lines - which will stand the test of time in cinematic history.
I would have loved to see Tony Montana, after doing half a kilo of coke in one snort just sweating buckets, his eyes red and puffy, his lips ranting, his body shaking, his mind scattered and his character just ballistic and freaking...he did not...and that is where this film falls short.