Blow

Blow
Cast: Johnny Depp
Studio: New Line Cinema
Rating: 7/10

Scarface is probably one of the coolest drug movies ever made. Well, at least in my opinion, which means as much as you think it does. In any case, Blow is a damn good movie.

Blow doesn’t find all the answers where Traffic tried to do it all. Blow doesn’t play you like an idiot. It doesn’t force feed you good or bad. It stays steady on a line that is nowhere north or south of the border. It’s a true story and it doesn’t glorify anything but itself.

George Jung was nobody, until he began smuggling fantastic amounts of cocaine from Columbia to the US. Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors and he proved to me again why that is. Depp turns Jung into an almost sympathetic character. Jung left his soft town in Massachusetts looking for a new world, and what he found next was a career in the drug trade where he was single-handedly responsible for almost all of the cocaine brought into the States. Depp is phenomenal. This is the sort of role that made Al Pacino the legend he is now.

The rest of the cast pales next to Depp, but that isn’t bad considering his talent. Penelope Cruz is amazing as the coked out wife of George. And what can you say about Paul Reubens? You know Pee Wee Herman? Yes, that guy. He blows his part out of the water.

Director Ted Demme (The Ref) does a brilliant job of bringing Blow to life. The best thing about the story is that you don’t walk out asking, ‘Wouldn’t it have been cool to be that guy?’

+ charlie craine


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