Awful

Rating: 3/10 (27 October 2003)

I'm always prepared for a heavily-hyped movie to fail to live up to the hype, but I was astonished at how p***-poor SCARFACE was, from the grotesque performances of Pacino and Loggia to the gawd-awful script, to the pointless little "hey-look-at-me!" directorial flourishes (my favorite: the little pullback/zoom-in move DePalma does *for no reason* outside the Porsche showroom), to the ending scene, which is just stupid.
It's movies like SCARFACE that make me wonder if critics and film buffs get together occasionally to play a practical joke on the rest of the world by pretending to like a bad movie, just to see if they can get everyone else to go along.
Sorry if I seem bitter, but I feel like I've had three hours of my life stolen from me.