Scarface

Before we saw this movie, my friend Mark said "Everyone else has probably seen it on DVD".  That's why only 10 people were in the theater.  You could say this wine was a little past its prime.

When it was released, this movie was considered shocking in its violent depictions.  On reviewing today, it wouldn't even get an R rating except for the cartoonish mounds of cocaine.  Al Pacino plays Tony Montana a Cuban emigre out to make a quick buck in Miami in the 80s.  The quickest route is thorugh crime which does pay, at least for a while.   A star is born, he goes up, you know the rest.

For a movie about Cubans in South Florida, there were NO Hispanics in this movie.   It seemed very dated.  Like other Brian De Palma films it sought to shock (Carrie, Blow Out) but upon viewing it falls a little flat.  Don't bother.

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