BBM Enterprises Online -Scarface review

      I didn't really know what to expect when I watched Scarface, I knew it was a gangster film with
   Al Pacino in it but apart from this I didn't know much about it and so I was able to give it an
   impartial review without having my view of the film affected by any preconceptions, good or
   otherwise. And so, after watching Scarface I felt thoroughly entertained by a film that was a lot
   different than I had expected.
      Scarface is the story of two friends, Tony Montana and Manny Ray who arrive in Florida after
   being forced out of Cuba with 125,000 fellow Cubans by Castro. After spending only a short while
   in America, Tony gets himself involved with a powerful gangster called Frank Lopez and he and
   Manny start working for him.
      Montana though is unwilling to just be working for someone as powerful as Lopez, he actually
   wants to take Lopez's place at the top of the underworld's ladder and so he uses his charisma and
   ambition to start working his way up so that he gets in a position to where he can finally take
   Lopez's place. However, when he gets all the money and all the power he finds it all too much to
   handle and lets the power and his increasing cocaine habit (which has now become his primary
   method of income) go straight to his head and we see him and the empire that he has built rapidly
   self-destruct.

      As you may know BBM are avid De Niro fans and I have never really been into Al Pacino in a big
   way primarily because the only movies that I've seen Pacino in are The Godfather's and Heat.
   However during the past two weeks I have seen him in both Scarface and Carlito's Way and the
   performances that he gives in both of these films are two of the best performances that I have seen
   (Scarface especially). In Scarface he is so beleivable as the Cuban refugee that he plays and the
   character that he developed for Montana makes the film so enjoyable to watch that I could watch
   this film hundreds of times and not get bored. You've got to see it just for Al Pacino's performance
   alone.
     There will definitely be a few trips to the video shop to get more Al Pacino films out in the near
   future. Donnie Brasco coming soon.


   DVD Features :

   * Original documentary about the making of Scarface featuring new interviews with director
      Brian De Palma, Al Pacino, writer Oliver Stone, producer Martin Bregman and cinematographer
      John A. Alonzo.
   * Out takes
   * Production photographs.
   * Trailer for Carlito's Way