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Pacino is spectacularly over the top in Scarface
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Derek Malcolm
21 Aug 2009
Based on the 1932 classic by Howard Hawks, a director few would even try to copy, Brian De Palma’s 1983 version has Al Pacino as Tony Montana, a two-bit hood from Cuba who makes it big in the drug trade.
His performance is spectacularly, sometimes gloriously, over the top as Montana sniffs enough cocaine to sink a battleship and luxuriates in a huge bathtub in his absurd mansion.
Oliver Stone wrote the screenplay and De Palma provides some notable sequences.
To call the whole thing visceral is a palpable understatement.
It goes on even longer than Tarantino but with much, much more flair.
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Scarface is a excellent film and Pacino gave a stunning performance as the unforgettable Tony Montana
- Andy, Enfield, UK, 07/09/2009 02:56
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