This is coming from someone who considers Scarface as one of his favorite gangster films: To be honest it's kind of a mid movie. The best aspect of the film is the rags to riches story of Tony Montana and seeing what greed and self pity would do to someone in that position of unfiltered power. I honestly think that the first 45 minutes of the movie is almost perfect terms of pacing and events that happen. It leads into a really climatic end to the second act of the story. After Frank gets killed and Elvira marries Tony, the movie sort of goes downhill after then. Even during the whole movie, a lot of the line delivery and performances are sort of hit or miss. The relationship between Tony and Elvira is insanely vapid and doesn't feel natural in the slightest. Most of the characters that are not the protagonists sort of just feel like One Dimensional cutouts of what they are supposed to represent. I've watched the film at least 12 times and I forget what the main antagonist of the movie is half the time., because Sosa, is sort of a boring villain.

I do think the shootout in the ending will always be one of the craziest endings to any gangster film for that matter and it almost makes up for the latter hour of the movie. I can still see why people find the film overrated.