"Say hello to my lil' friend"

Scarface, one of the "best movies of all time", is about a man named Tony Montana (aka Scarface), a refugee from Cuba who killed Fidel Castro so he could get a green card and come to Miami, Florida by the Mariel Boatlift to conquer the "American Dream". When he gets to America he starts by working at a small food store with his friend, Manny Ray (Steven Bauer). His first drug deal was with Hector (Al Isreal) and a bunch of Colombians that didn't go so well. Montana refuses to bring the money to them, and the Colombians refuse to give them the cocaine. In conclusion, Angel is brutally killed, and Montana gets saved by his two other friends, Chi Chi and Manny. They get their coke money and kill Hector. Overtime Tony Montana (Al Pacino) goes from being dirt poor to the king of the drug world. It is a very violent film filled with cocaine and money. Tony is introduced to a drug lord, Lopez, and ends up stealing his wife and gets married to Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer) and buys an enormous house of his own. In the end Montana kills his ex partner, Manny, due to sleeping with his younger sister, Gina. Gina, heartbroken, comes to Tony to seek revenge...

Brian DePalma did a good job of making the characters believable for their roles. This kind of story is very unlikely for the drug world today. The police would catch them right away and they would have no time to become so wealthy. I really liked the way that Tony Montana talked, it was very amusing. I don't think that Michelle Pfeiffer did a very good job for her role as the drug-addicted wife. She was very serious and she didn't seem the type for Al Pacino.

There were a lot of close-ups when the actors were doing coke. Long shots were used in Montanas new home to show how big his house was. Cuts were used to go from scene to scene. There weren't very many special effects.

At the beginning the actors were wearing their orange jumpsuits when they were in prison, they looked very dirty and poor. Then the costumes of the actors were clean, proper looking gowns and dresses for the women and dress suits for the men to show their wealth.

I don't know if I would consider Scarface as one of the best movies of all time. I did enjoy the movie, but I have seen way better. My expectations were very high also, so that could have played a role. Before you watch a movie, especially one of the "best movies of all time" you should go into watching it with no expectations, then you will probably like it. There was barely any special effects, well at least noticeable ones. The plot was like a lot of movies I've seen lately. Man is poor and goes to America to get the American dream, becomes a huge drug dealer, gets really rich, gets married, gets too egotistic, then in the end loses everything. It was also way too long for my liking. If it was cut down an hour shorter I think I would have liked it a lot more. I felt like it just kept dragging on and on. I enjoyed the action and there were many famous quotes in this movie. I didn't like one of the very first scenes when they come to America and they have their first drug deal. It was way too bloody and unrealistic. The antagonist sawed off Manny Rays arm and leg. It was absolutely disgusting.