THE Gangster Movie!!! There can only be one Tony Montana.

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2006)

Scarface probably is the best gangster/crime movie with the best crime character and probably one of the best characters in general movie history Tony Montana.
I just love this movie, I watched it dozens of times and I always love it more than the time before. It would be my favourite movie of all time, if there weren't this little movies called Pulp Fiction and From Dusk Till Dawn, which are my favourite movies of all time.
However, this genius gangster movie from Brian de Palma starts with the Cuban refugee Tony Montana coming to the USA, getting disrespect from the very start of the movie, working at first in a little filthy 'burger' shop to grow all over this to become the biggest drug boss of Miami and probably the USA.
Pacino acts his brain out in this movie, he learned to talk like Cuban's, his face acting is incredible and through the movie there are countless phrases spoken that will live forever like: "In this country you gotta make the money first, if you got the money, you got the power, if you got the power, than you got the women, that's when you start your own moves." or in the grande finale: "..you wanna play rough, huh? Say hello to my little friend..." just stuff like that.
All in all, it's about the 'rise and fall' of a Cuban refugee that becomes a drug baron and falls as a drug addict maniac that wants to have it all and doesn't see what he already has.
But that's not what makes this 3 hour epos so unique. This movie is so legendary because of the acting. Pacino simply is the coolest gangster of all time, the character Tony Montana is the coolest gangster of all time, and you love him from the beginning, because he maybe is a drug king, but not really a murder or worse because he has his principles and just raised up in a Castro government with no expectations to a successful living. Another thing that makes this movie to a legend are the phrases and specific scenes, like the one with the chainsaw and THE GRANDE FINALE, which easily is one of the coolest and toughest ends of all time.
My summary is that this 'Monster Crime Epos' is a movie you have to watch, because together the acting, music, extreme violent speech and scenes, Pacino, Bauer, Pfeiffer... make this to one of the best movies in film history and without a doubt together with The Godfather to the greatest Gangster/Crime movie of all time.
Easily 10 out of 10.