One of the best gangster movies around!

Rating: 9/10 (8 January 2007)

One of the best gangster movies around! This is a real classic. When it is on, i will watch this movie and keep on watching. The movie never gets boring,with an exception to some scenes with Michelle Pfeifer (who is just annoying and in my opinion not a good actress). I understand that this movie is a remake of a movie made in 1932. Which was based on events of organized crime during the thirties. Although most of the story of the 1983 version is fiction,some elements are based on real facts of the drugs mafia in the eighties with reference (example character "Sosa" from a large drugs cartel) to Escobar who was a real kingpin! The performance of Al Pacino is what give this gangster movie a special touch to the genre. He is not a simple character. He is smart and ambitious and has got big "cohones" (balls,guts). He can be a bastard but also shows some moral when he refuses to blow up a car because the target's children and wife are also in it. Which ultimately will be the cause of his death in the end. It is nice to see the effects of cocaine on "Tony Montana". At one time he doesn't trust anybody,not even his best friend,with a real dramatic consequence. When he realizes his mistake,he is too far gone and you just know that he will fall. But he will fall in style. "Say hello to my little friend"!