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Summary: Love it....
Review: I love this movie its the best one I've seen this year.
Johnny Depp and Paul Reubens were great in it their both great actors I love them. I love Blow!!
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Summary: 5 stars. Why?
Review: Ees great. Dis moovie full of things we can relate to.Dis kina ting happens in real life. It really hit close to home. Except the money. I only make small change. But it would be nice to have all that dough.
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Summary: Excellent Johnny Depp performance!!!
Review: I'll admit the only reason I originally wanted to see BLOW was because Johnny Depp is in it. I have been a fan of his for a long time. I think he is so underrated as an actor, and for those die hard fans of his -- this is worth a viewing. He is totally mind Blowing in this movie. Words can not describe how wonderful I truly think this performance is. If I could pick the Oscar winner for best actor this year, I'd gladly give it to Depp.
As far as the movie goes, this is a very fast paced, comedy/drama that has a lot of great music. It's the story of George Jung, who was born and raised in Weymouth, Mass. His parents dreams are shattered when he grows up to be a drug dealer. Jung didn't want to work a real job, so he got into drugs and selling them as a means to make money, good money.
He is hardly a sympathetic character nor is he the greatest person in the world. He isn't a bad person either, I think.
He made very bad choices with his life, and his priorities were totally out of whack. The film goes through his "career" of being a drug lord and pretty much starting the cocaine trade in the USA. It's a very interesting and entertaining look into the seedy world of drugs. "Peewee Herman" aka Paul Reubens is also extremely good in this movie as one of George's first drug dealing friends. This was a good role for him, and I think he did a great job.
Rachel Griffiths (of most recently, Six feet under) and Ray Liotta play George's Parents. I am from Massachusetts and to hear the Boston accent so poorly acted out by these two was excruiatingly painful. I like Griffiths, she is a good character actress. I've never liked Liotta, he is just not a good actor at all in my opinion.
BLOW is a good rental. It's one of the best movie's I've seen this year, and has the best performance by a male lead.
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Summary: Movie offers nothing new, but DVD is packed with extras.
Review: Based on the book: Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made 100 million with the Medllin Cocaine Cartel and Lost is All' by Bruce Porter, Blow is an overly familiar, overly slick, docu-drama of real life legendary drug dealer George Jung's life. It's a second rate cable movie with Johnny Depp added to upgrade the package. The film seems all set up to be an interesting character study, but the character is too bland to be very interesting and everything about the story is overly familiar. The few opportunities the film sets up are squandered beneath the stylistic re-treads and multiple montages that we've seen used much more effective in films like: Scorcese's Good Fellas and Casino; in De Palma's Scarface and in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. However, you might find enough redeeming value in the film's good performances which include worthwhile work from Ray Liotta, Johnny Depp, Cliff Curtis (who too briefly plays Escobar) and Franka Potente (the Run Lola Run star making her American feature film debut here). If you can somehow overlook all of the recycled ideas borrowed from the Scorcese/Tarantino/Anderson/De Palma stylistic tricks and homage to great directors of the past book... you might not find the film the pointless waste of time that I found it to be. That said the DVD does have some much better than average extras, the documentary on the effects of cocaine on Colombia is very well done, the interview with currently imprisoned real life George Jung are among the highlights. If the subject matter , the rise and fall of drug dealer holds any interest, the extras on the disc are definitely worth seeing. In fact the extras are far more interesting and compelling than the film is itself. You can watch the extras integrated into the film via the Infini-film gimmick (previously used in the 13 Weeks, and 15 minutes DVD's) or Separately accessible via the menu options. HINT: Make the film more interesting by making sure you turn on the Fact File feature which will give you subtitles full of interesting stuff throughout the film. Christopher Jarmick,is the author of The Glass Cocoon with Serena F. Holder a critically acclaimed, steamy suspense thriller.
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Summary: AWESOME!!
Review: BLOW is one of those fantastic movies that comes along every once in a long while. BLOW "blew" me away when I saw it in theaters months ago. Ted Demme directs the movie fantastically and the performances are top-notch. Everyone is used to seeing Penelope Cruz in romance movies (i.e. All the Pretty Horses and Captain Corelli's Mandolin), but BLOW allows Cruz to really shine. Even though at times, the audience is sure to dispise her character, that's how one knows a good performance when they've seen one. In my opinion, Johnny Depp gives one of the best performances of his career in this movie. Ray Liotta is also good as Depp's open-minded and extremely forgiving father. Paul Reubens is hilarious and also turns in a note-worthy performance. Blow is a great movie, the DVD has fantastic extras, and if you like music.....check out the soundtrack to BLOW. It rocks!!
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Summary: Great Story and Great Acting by Johnny Depp
Review: First and foremost, the dvd extra's such as the interview with George Jung, Ted Demme and George Jung discussing the movie, and commentating was excellent. The music/vocals by Nikki Costa creates a very sombering moment and when viewing the last moments of the film it makes you even sadder for George Jung. Johnny Depp did an excellent job of bring this character to life and I have to admit that I felt sorry for him in the end. The thing that I admired about George was his sense of independnce and freedom, even though it came at a cost due to personal choices. I think most people begin to care for George when his daughter arrives and that changes your opinion about him slightly. Regardless this film was fantastic and would be a great addition to anyone's personal library.
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Summary: Good one...
Review: First off I have to say I agree with all the reviews here. This movie was a real nice surprise and I enjoyed it a lot. Many folks have been comparing it to movies like Goodfellas and Scarface. While I agree with these comparisons I noticed the use of violent scenes in Blow is much less than these other examples. It never turns into a "blood bath", but you almost expect it too. The few violent scenes give you a flavor for the type of people involved with drug tafficing and then adds to the increasingly paranoid and tragic feel of the movie the further along it goes. I think this a more effective use of violence in movies...a tool for setting a tone. Another reviewer also made a good point about the movie not showing the effects of getting hooked on drugs. I agree here too as George's own drug problem was quickly glossed over.
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Summary: EXCELLENT, I WATCHED IT TWICE!!!!!!
Review: Wow! Not that I am surprised that this is a great movie, I mean it has Johnny Depp (a very unrated actor in my opinion). This movie is not only about drugs, money, and sex......it is about soul and emotion, trying to love and take care of your friends and family.....even if it is considered to be corrupt. I am not saying that George Jung was a hero......he just hated poverty more than he hated sin.....and this movie does portray him as likeable....Johnny Depp does a wonderful job, in transceding what the character is feeling......and who is to judge that this is all so terribly wrong.....I bet if one, dug into what the US government and CIA has done and still does.......it would not be that much different than a drug cartel.
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Summary: a grate drug movie
Review: this movie was based on a true story and I was shocked but also integged it got me thinking a lot about drugs and the whole society and trafficing of them and stuff that I never really thought about before. I say this is a grate movie and it should definintly be watched.
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Summary: "Ordinary People" meets "GoodFellas"
Review: Ok, maybe my review title ain't all that accurate. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this movie immensely. Its not perfect, treats some of the subject matter a little more patly than I would have liked. You would think a movie like this would be a film about the coke industry of the 70s and 80s. Instead, the film is a tragedy, Jung's meteoric rise to fame and fortune, his crash and burn, his numerous attempts to right himself, his numerous failures. You wouldn't know it going into it, but this film is about a man (albeit through some illegal, immoral, and unethical means) trying to provide for his family. Don't go into this looking for the next "GoodFellas" or "Boogie Nights". It's a single-man character study, and as such (IMHO) succeeds admirably. The ending of the film still haunts me.
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