User blog comment:BrianBerta/What is the Greatest Movie Ever Made? (poll)/@comment-25947144-20151011192253/@comment-24466828-20151011204949

Scarface is okay but I feel that it is kind of overrated.

The longer a movie is, the more likely it will run into pacing issues. Being 170 minutes long, Scarface does in fact have pacing issues and it doesn't have the same perfect pacing that The Godfather did. The issue with its pacing is that it takes a while for them to set up Tony's character and it also takes a while for his personality to change in the movie.

Also, I found Scarface to be very bland. Sure, it picks up in the last 20 minutes but there isn't a whole lot of action going on beforehand. I mentioned that this movie has pacing issues and those issues can often make it feel very boring. Not much exciting or interesting events go on in it. Several scenes should've been shortened or removed altogether. It is very talk-heavy.