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out of the 2.5 hrs the last 5 min was the only part worth watching.
look, it does not get better than this. Filled with action, and well written. long movie but well worth it. Many memorable lines. of course"Say hello to my little friend." Worth every penny
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Variety
Scarface is a grandiose modern morality play, excessive, broad and operatic at times. Full Review
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
Brian De Palma dedicates this 1983 feature to Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, authors of the 1932 original, though I doubt they would find much honor in his gory inflation of their crisp, 90-minute comic nightmare into a klumbering, self-important, arrhythmic downer of nearly three hours. Full Review
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
It plays like a crude "Godfather" parody, the sort that might amuse as a 10-minute sketch on "Saturday Night Live," but curdles and collapses as a 143-minute film. [09 Dec 1983] Full Review
Jay Scott
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Scarface is a B- movie with singularly silly psychological pretensions: its neo-primitivism is to the complex moral cosmos of Francis Coppola's "Godfather" saga as Disney is to Dickens. [09 Dec 1983] Full Review
Richard Corliss
Time
It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where nightmares strut in $800 suits and Armageddon lies around the next twist of treason. Full Review
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