Blow
Blow is a high-velocity look at George Jung's spectacular rise and fall following the turbulence of the 70's that resulted in a violent and lucrative revolution in international drug trade.
26 April 1947, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
27 December 1980, New York, USA
27 July 1968, Rotorua, New Zealand
24 August 1951, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
21 May 1959, New York City, New York, USA
25 May 1976, Manhattan, New York, USA
8 July 1979, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
January 02, 2011
Uneven drug trade story has explicit drug use.October 05, 2008
Does the movie make us care? Not really, which is the movie's basic problem.April 06, 2001
Blow fades a bit in its second half, weighed down by a need to closely follow Jung's life. But even then, the actors are so compelling that it's just a mild discomfort.July 23, 2007
Blow isn't really a classic, but it's a sobering story well-told.April 06, 2001
Grabs hold of you by the lapels and simply won't let go.April 06, 2001
An extraordinary -- and unfathomable -- piece of whitewashing.April 06, 2001
Depp aside, the acting is almost uniformly atrocious -- although it's hard to make hay out of this dialogue.April 06, 2001
A mediocre biopic.July 16, 2009
Johnny Depp gives a spellbindingly naturalistic performance that puts a sympathetic face on a powerfully individualistic man unable to shake a world of crime that brought him immense riches and eventually cost him everything he caredabout.May 26, 2006
Johnny Depp stars and, despite some pretty awful makeup, nails his performance as George Jung.April 06, 2001
Blow can't sustain the high.September 16, 2007
Comes off like a flamboyant cartoon, another film about the deglamorization of glamorous people living it up in the glamorous world of drugs.