After a Bolivian drug lord, Alejandro Sosa, has Tony (Scarface) associate beaten and then hanged by the neck from a helicopter, he asks Scarface how he can know whether or not to trust him. Scarface tells him, in colorful language, that he never did anything dishonest in his life. The Bolivian drug lord replies, “I think you are speaking from the heart.”
Seriously? Who, exactly, does this drivel appeal to? I know it does appeal to a certain class of people who see Scarface as some kind of hero because he has so much contempt for the audience in the theatre watching the movie who disapprove of him.
I can’t go on: it’s too dreary. It’s Al Pacino slumming through this big budget extravaganza having lost sight of the meaning and purpose of the craft of acting.
Tony Montana
Gina, his sister
Manolo, his loyal lieutenant
Elvira, Michelle Pfeiffer
Richard Belzer is comedian at Babylon Club
Incredibly, a journalist who is fingering the drug cartel, travels without body guards, and parks his own car late at night in New York, on the street. Sure.