Directed: Brian DePalma
Starring: Al Pacino
Due to its widespread popularity, Brian DePalma's Miami mob film has been turned into a cult classic. Nearly every profanity- riddled line of dialogue has become a quote used in today's vocabulary. Although this film is very well made and highly entertaining to watch, I can't help but think that it's mediocre in comparison to many other movies in the mob genre.
Al Pacino delivers a very intense, over-the-top performance as Tony Montana, a Cuban imigrant looking to become a powerful man in Miami. The entire script for the movie is unrelenting, saturated with colorful, profane speeches as it follows the story of Montana rising to power as an underground druglord in the city. This movie delivers no message written in stone but gives a very detailed view of life in thhe drug dealing business and why not to tamper with fragile frienships or connections.
Pros of this movie are definitely the cinematography and the script, but the film is simply eclipsed by other mob movies. ''Goodfellas" and "Reservoir Dogs" are only two.
I recommend this movie for the screenplay, and it is worth seeing just for that -- but don't turn it on with high expectations if you've already seen "Goodfellas."
-Jack Lewers
Rating---8
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