The movie starts with « can't you hear me knocking » and this can mean two things, either this movie is top cool, or the producers have a lot of money to afford a Rolling Stones song, sadly the second statement is the true one, this song merely starts a movie that goes in one direction like a car on cruise control, and no Johnny Depp charisma, or Penelope Cruze Sexiness is gonna save it, nor the «based on a true story» sticker.
Meet George Jung (Depp) a bright kid from Massachusetts who was raised in a poor household and promised himself it wouldn't happen to him, so as soon as he can he travels throughout America and lands in LA with his childhood friend Tuna (Actor name) where he rents an appartment in Manhattan Beach in the midst of the summer of love.
California lifestyle needing money, Jung starts to deal drugs, first small quantities of herb, then expanding to importing it himself from South America, then expanding again until reaching a status allowing him to deal with Pablo Escobar personally, being the first man to bring Cocaine to America, and the story is true, which means all the craziness surrounding white powder in America in the seventies, it was this dude's fruits of labor.
The plot is really straightforward with not many twists really, it's the whole «rise and fall of ...» thing from VH1, of course a guy like that ends up marrying a trophy wife (Cruz) of course he ends up estranging everybody who ever mattered to him, and the end follows with no surprises, but the film positive side is that it tells a terrible tale of greed, but in a candid way, in the eyes of Jung nothing he did was bad, since he was just meeting the demand in simple marketing terms, even the FBI and the DEA are not bad guys, and besides unlike his South American likes he is not prone to violence, he is just a businessman
The best part of this movie are the exchanges Jung has with his Father played beautifully by Ray Liotta, they are the most interesting parts of the movie, and what save it from totally drowning
Let me just say It is a movie you can live without, Depp made far better movies in his career some we praised here, and Cruz was always overrated in the first place, and If you want to listen to Rolling Stones songs in a movie, pick a Scorsese one, but it was a fairly entertaining one, so if you really have nothing better to do it can be a nice choice.
Year: 2001
Writers: David McKenna, Nick Cassavetes
Director: Ted Demme
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz
Meet George Jung (Depp) a bright kid from Massachusetts who was raised in a poor household and promised himself it wouldn't happen to him, so as soon as he can he travels throughout America and lands in LA with his childhood friend Tuna (Actor name) where he rents an appartment in Manhattan Beach in the midst of the summer of love.
California lifestyle needing money, Jung starts to deal drugs, first small quantities of herb, then expanding to importing it himself from South America, then expanding again until reaching a status allowing him to deal with Pablo Escobar personally, being the first man to bring Cocaine to America, and the story is true, which means all the craziness surrounding white powder in America in the seventies, it was this dude's fruits of labor.
The plot is really straightforward with not many twists really, it's the whole «rise and fall of ...» thing from VH1, of course a guy like that ends up marrying a trophy wife (Cruz) of course he ends up estranging everybody who ever mattered to him, and the end follows with no surprises, but the film positive side is that it tells a terrible tale of greed, but in a candid way, in the eyes of Jung nothing he did was bad, since he was just meeting the demand in simple marketing terms, even the FBI and the DEA are not bad guys, and besides unlike his South American likes he is not prone to violence, he is just a businessman
The best part of this movie are the exchanges Jung has with his Father played beautifully by Ray Liotta, they are the most interesting parts of the movie, and what save it from totally drowning
Let me just say It is a movie you can live without, Depp made far better movies in his career some we praised here, and Cruz was always overrated in the first place, and If you want to listen to Rolling Stones songs in a movie, pick a Scorsese one, but it was a fairly entertaining one, so if you really have nothing better to do it can be a nice choice.
Year: 2001
Writers: David McKenna, Nick Cassavetes
Director: Ted Demme
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz
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