Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Scarface 1983

Scarface (1983)     Fidel Castro opens the Mariel, Cuba harbor and sends 125,000 Cuban refugees to reunite with their relatives in the US.  Many are from the Cuban prisons, Tony Montana is one of the criminals.  He goes to work for a Miami drug lord in 1980 and rises to the top of Florida's crime chain with a trail of murders in his wake.
     Somewhat based on the original Scarface of 1932 which was filmed in Chicago.  How can you make any decisions when you have a bag of cocaine in your system at all times?  When you treat everyone like dirt, they eventually all band together to bring you down but that can only be the ones that are still alive.  At first I did not like this movie but it becomes better as everything falls apart.  There is a not of trivia information at imdb.  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)

170 min, Drama directed by Brian De Palma with Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon, F. Murray Abraham, Paul Shenar.

Note:  Blockbuster 4*, imdb 8.2 out of 10, 89% critic 93% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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