Scarface - Crime, Drama - 1983 - 2h 50m
Tony Montana is a cuban immigrant who moves to the United States in 1980's. What follows is a brutal and violent path from the bottom to the top and we learn what it means to have the world at your feet.
Positives
- Really good story
- The ending
- Al Pacino is cool
- I like 1980s Miami as a setting, its cool
Negatives
- I found it kind of slow in some parts but to be honest I don't know if it is enough for me to put it down as a negative but I'm going to do it anyway
- I don't know how to describe it but the way the story "flowed", if that makes sense, wasn't really my taste. I'll elaborate in the review down below
8/10
I'm not really sure what to rate this one. To me it's between an 8 and a 9. I think the movie can be split into three parts. The first 55% are really good and so are the last 10% but I think the movie lost some of its momentum and flow during the 35% in the middle. Among the negatives I've written that the "flow" of the story during some parts wasn't to my liking and this is what I was referencing to. I tend to like a story that has a goal, where the story has a direction is heading somewhere and I think it loses that in the middle which takes the movie down a rating in my opinion. Other that i really like this movie. It is an epic, intense and exciting gangster classic that I found fun and interesting to watch and I'm sure you can dig deep into it and analyze a lot of the messages behind the movie. The setting of the movie is really cool, I like 80s Miami and it fits the story just like Al Pacino does who I think does really well in this role and really makes it his own. Another highlight is the ending that really enhances the movie as a whole. I won't spoil anything but it's epic and absolutely iconic. To sum up this movie is really good and I would highly recommend it.
