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Rating: 7/10 (10 June 2005)

I've never seen the original "Scarface", but the remake is not something that you'll forget easily. Al Pacino plays Antonio Montana, one of the Cuban exiles known as "Marielitos". After arriving in Miami, he soon becomes a drug kingpin, distributing cocaine everywhere, not to mention getting all coked up himself. As one might expect with such a person, he gets into all sorts of bloody situations; in one scene, he and his friends commit what can only be described as the "Florida Chainsaw Massacre". Pretty much the whole movie shows Tony's violent escapades.
I should warn you that this movie is not for the squeamish in any way, shape or form. But don't worry: the violence is not gratuitous. Overall, the movie was an interesting counterbalance to the 1980s' obsession with optimism. In "Scarface", all optimism is eliminated early on.
Maybe it's not a masterpiece, but it is something that everyone should see just to understand Miami's mafia.