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Having grown up watching Scarface on poor quality VHS transfers, a recent re-watch (the first in many years) on a wide-screen, high-definition, gorgeously colored print, was a revelation. Also an opportunity to reward the lurid, populist gangster classic with the critical acclaim it deserves but that commonly eludes it. Three already high octane personalities in director Brian de Palma, screenwriter Oliver Stone and star Al Pacino, all firing at the peak of their game for a film that is far more than the obnoxious relative at the Goodfellas/Godfather family get-togethers.