Scarface (DVD, 2006)

"[Scarface] will always be a ladies fear and a man's main ambition of power and dream in their most interim mind" - loco10rules. Huh?

Brian De Palma's Scarface is meant as a cautionary figure, not a role model. There is nothing about him worth emulating. With 218 f-words, chain saw mutilations, numerous shootings, drug abuse, rampant sexist remarks and gruesome betrayal, this movie is a story in how NOT to live. If you haven't seen it, you aren't missing anything. Nobody in their right mind wants bloody images like the ones in this film floating through their head.

The entertainment magazine Variety wrote Scarface is a "modern morality play." Tony Montana is a drug lord, a sort of vicious, perverted King Midas. Everything he touches turns to money or (cocaine) and dies. He destroys every life he comes in contact with: family, friends, and business associates. The climax of the film is Tony Montana, the antihero, dying alone after snorting a mountain of coke, killing his own sister, and falling into a pool filled with blood. Scarface is a depressing tale that cannot redeem itself. While there is strong character development, the darkness far outshadows any light. The innocent die violently; the evil die violently. Nobody wins. End of story.