A Crazy Coked Up Dream

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2013)

There is nothing about this movie that is subtle. It is a blow-hard, in-your-face character study of an immigrant's imaginations. In fact, everything he attains on his way to the top of the world is first "articulated" by his creation of what he has coming and is determined to get.
"What has he got that i don't" says the dishwasher Tony Montana before he makes his first move and what a move it is. That is only the beginning and the rest is cult movie lore. It is a movie of undeniable chutzpah. There is much here that is embarrassing and much that is like "some crazy coked up dream".
It is a colorful collage of Pulp and surreal settings. Nothing here looks real, just something out of a paperback world of grotesque characters spouting vile verbiage. It buries the viewer in a land of creeps that, of course, are more unsympathetic then are barely likable Anti-Hero.
The Director's smooth self-conscious style is roughed up here by jarring profane jargon and an unsettling Underworld of unpleasantness. Ultimately it is an undertaking of undesirables and ruthless ruffians. It is a pretty-ugly world laid bare with some gripping set-pieces and it is a movie you will either love or hate and it is deserving of either because it is both lusciously bold and relentlessly repugnant.