Most of it is good, but some of it is really bad

Rating: 6/10 (19 November 2010)

At the beginning of Scarface, Cuban emigrant, Tony Montana is in US Custody, sitting is jail. By the end of the movie, he is sitting behind a desk, in a very expensive suit in a very expensive house. The product of his wealth: Drug money. In two and a half hours, Brian de Palma tells us how he gets from A to Z, but maybe not as well as the majority of viewers say.
DePalma gets from A- to about M (for Montana) in competent fashion. Scarface ranges from very charming to very brutal and gives Al Pachino a chance to shine. So what goes wrong. The last third of Scarface feels like a different movie, an overwrought hack job. I'm not sure who is to blame, Pachino for his painfully overdone performance or DePalma for letting him get away with it. Or maybe it's Oliver Stone's fault for all the poorly scripted lines and developments which get worse and worse up until the end. At any rate, Scarface comes apart in spectacular fashion, leaving a movie that is medium good (at best)
watch it and decide for yourself