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SummaryCuban immigrant Tony Montana (Pacino) builds a Miami drug empire in the 1980s.

Scarface

Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.7
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
78% Positive
7 Reviews
0% Mixed
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22% Negative
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100
TV Guide Magazine
A beautiful, at times poetic exercise in excess from Brian De Palma.
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100
Empire
Perfomances are excellent, and despite its moralistic conclusion, the film has since become de rigueur viewing for crack barons, who know a good shoot-em-up when they see one.
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User score
Universal Acclaim
8.7
92% Positive
788 Ratings
6% Mixed
51 Ratings
2% Negative
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May 8, 2026
10
trueibaadgamer
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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May 8, 2026
10
Fer3000_Channel
Say hello to my little friend! - Tony Montana Gracias Brian de Palma por esta obra
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90
The New York Times
Scarface is the most stylish and provocative - and maybe the most vicious - serious film about the American underworld since Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather."
80
Variety
Scarface is a grandiose modern morality play, excessive, broad and operatic at times.
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80
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.
25
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]
20
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.
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Oct 3, 2025
10
GiovaniReviews
Esse filme é um clássico do cinema, é uma versão nova do filme de mesmo nome lançado em 1932, mas pela ambientação dos anos 80 agrega muito ao filme, a atuação de al pacino é um absurdo, não perca a chance de assistir!
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Dec 31, 2012
6
Gripa1992
The Dramatic aspects are lacking but overall Scarface is meant to entertain like any viable film. The direction is heavy handed at times, jumping between a firework Rambo spectacle to a much more laid back tone; that of which is comparable to Francis Ford Coppola.
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Jun 1, 2025
5
Kasper_042
Film dobrze ukazuje życie florydzckiego gangstera jednak nie uważam fabuły za interesującą lub w jakikolwiek sposób specjalną. To prosty film klasyk nie dobry nie zły.
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Jan 22, 2012
3
ReviewCritic
Nothing more that mountains of cocaine, and never-ending violence. Scarface has absolutely no storyline. It is true that hollywood only makes movies with action, that have absolutely no meaning these days.
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Aug 8, 2022
2
barbiesuperfan
movie **** but it was creative so ill give it that dunk a cino ?? dunkin donut
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Production Company:
  • Universal Pictures
  • Martin Bregman Productions
Release Date:Dec 9, 1983
Duration:2 h 50 m
Rating:R
Genres:
Tagline:He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name...SCARFACE.

Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Nominations
20/20 Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
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