Pacino is simply masterful

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 1998)

Scarface wasn't quite the movie I was expecting to see, but that's not necessarily a bad thing either. I had been watching all the Godfather movies a few days before I first saw Scarface so I was expecting a normal kind of mafia story. It's a crime story and all but not a mafia story, I thought it was cool as hell. Al Pacino is such a great actor, he does like a metabolic change in each role. He doesn't even seem to be the same actor. You actually believe he is Cuban refugee just as in Godfather you can believe he is an americanized son of a Sicilian mafia don. Plus I don't think I have ever seen a movie with nearly as many cuss words as Scarface before.