Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana, one of the most ruthless gangsters ever portrayed on film. Scarface follows the violent career of a small-time Cuban gangster who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire. It follows his rise to criminal wealth and thousands of immigrants arriving in Florida in the 1980s. Pacino, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him rise to the top of a criminal world but his paranoia and over protective desire to protect his kid sister, played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, prove to be his reasons for falling to the bottom, leading to his eventual murder. The films brutal violence and lack of positive characters still make it controversial and disliked by certain critics, especially make in the early 1980s when movies of such violence were rare. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Tony's coke-addict

I really enjoyed this movie very much. The only thing that I noticed about this movie is that I found it to be sort of predictable. Once he began his rise to the top, you could almost feel the shift as he quickly began to fall leading to his eventual death. I think that the reason this was predictable was because gangster movies today are sort of modeled after Scarface. In 1982, I am sure that it was more of an original film even though there were movies of the same type long before the 1980s. Scarface was actually a remake of the 1932 movie with the same title.

Special Cinematic Techniques: I thought there were many well used cinematic techniques. A couple of the things that I noticed were how well the camera angles caught the action. There were plenty of fighting scenes in Scarface and I thought they captured them very well. The special effects were very good, especially for a movie in the early 1980s. I think that this movie was very well done from all aspects.

Scarface magnificently captured the gruesome coke game of the 1980s and the ego-centered organized crime game that eventually leads to a fal

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