638 Ways To Kill Castro DVD

Advantages: Guns, blood, swearing, and plenty of them
Disadvantages: None

...This is the ultimate bad guy!. Guns, blood, swearing, drugs, and...did I mention guns? This is Pacino at his best (well, Godfather exempt). Al Pacino plays Tony Montana...a political refugee from Cuba (it sounds a lot better when he says it). He arrives in the US (Florida) along with hundred's of fellow countrymen. Fidel Castro decided to chuck out all of Cuba's 'undesirables'. On arrival they are all detained in holding camps. To get out of this camp he provides a service - a disposal service if you know what I mean ;) For his job well done, he is rewarded with a green card and a job as a grill boy along with his partner in crime, Manny (played by Steven Bauer) in a nasty old trailer. This isn't really Tony's scene, so he decides to seek further career enhancing jobs from a local Cuban crime lord. He is successful, and is duly... Read review

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...I went to see Traffic on Saturday and I was a bit bored and I didn’t really think that it should have been nominated for so many Oscars. The film follows Robert Wakefield a Drugs commissioner who is newly appointed to the post and is on a trial period. The movie look at the different ways the police deal with drugs and the issues relating to drugs. Without giving to much away it seems as if there’s a few different stories going on all with the same end result. It was a clever device to keep audience interest by the Director Steven Soderbergh but I would have preferred of the story was a bit more linear. I thought Michael Douglas was good in this movie and the supporting cast of Catherine Zeeta Jones (Helen), Luis Guzman (Ray Castro) were worth mentioning. It was a good film but I have seen better and I did think... Read review

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Advantages: Intense acting,exciting mucical scores,numerous high octane shoot outs and brilliant acting from Al Pacino.
Disadvantages: None unless you count cheesy 80's pop music here and there a bad thing hehe.

...resentful against communism and got irritated by people telling him what to do and paying him peanuts for long factory hours. He is sent to a refugee camp near Miami and is offered to be relaesed and given a 'Green card' by a deal set up by his best friend Manny Rivera which is an assasination contract to kill an inmate of the camp who was pro communist and pro castro. Tony Montana gets stuck working in a burger bar in the seedy cuban underground of Miami and grows irritated and decides to push and push some employers into scoring a drug deal that would earn him $5,000. Tony gathers a few guys together and heads to the deal to find he's being set up by an insane Columbian maniac who negotiates his deals with a large suitcase one half for the drugs and the other half to carry his chainsaw in which he sets about gruesomly torchoring people with... Read review

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