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Blow
New Line Cinema
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for pervasive drug content and language, some violence and sexuality
Starring
Johnny Depp,
Penélope Cruz,
Franka Potente,
Rachel Griffiths,
Paul Reubens,
Jordi MollĂ ,
Ray Liotta,
and
Jacque Lawson
A high-velocity look at George Jung's (Depp) spectacular rise and fall -- based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into America's biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the 35 billion-dollar a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. Ted Demme directs this riveting look at the manic allure -- and dangerous reality -- of a drug smuggler's everyday life, and unfolds one of the great untold stories from the recent annals of American crime and culture. (New Line Cinema)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Bruce Porter (book)
David McKenna
Nick Cassavetes
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Ted Demme
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 11, 2001
Video: September 11, 2001
Theatrical: April 6, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
124 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Scorches the screen with a badass bravado all its own. Smart, sexy, funny and dangerous this high-wire act is a movie and a half.

88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Rarely since the tale of the Corleones has a movie presented such a compelling, sympathetic portrait of a criminal lowlife.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Melancholy, haunting and riveting true-crime saga.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
Consistently compelling without being truly memorable.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Carries little in the way of passion or revelatory charge.

70
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
It's basically your above-average nice drug movie.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Seductive, funny, whip-smart and ultimately tragic.

70
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
Funny, immediately and consistently engaging, and -- well done on almost every level.

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Ends up a portrait through a rose-colored lens, turning a social parasite into a Greek hero.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's a real disappointment: too hasty, too scattered and superficial, and, in the end, disappointingly sappy and sentimental.
63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Take away the drugs, and this is the story of a boring life in wholesale.

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Too soft on its lead character and too willing to chalk up America's drug appetites to the times-that-were-a-changin' in the '60s.
60
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Respectable but unmemorable end result may suffer from comparison with the similarly themed, albeit differently angled, “Traffic.”

60
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Hopefully ambitious yet hopelessly lightweight.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Inherently stale.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The acting is solid.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
It's an honest portrayal, but it leaves the audience stranded, without the emotional hook of a character we can care about.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A facile treatment of a complicated subject.
50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Depp's witty, spare performance gives the picture a poignancy -- a depth of feeling, if you'll allow the pun -- that Mr. Demme's hectic direction and the hurried script by David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes don't quite earn.

50
LA Weekly
John Patterson
If as much thought had been expended on character and consequences as was lavished on bell-bottom diameters, collar widths and soundtrack selection, Blow might have been a richer, more intelligent experience, and much more Demme's movie than a carbon copy of other people's.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
This single cautionary tale of how drug innocence gives way to woeful, hung-over experience proves to be way too predictable to effectively caution or even involve anyone.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Blew its chance to be an epic drug opera. It's only nostril-deep.
50
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
It downplays the effects of George's drug trafficking, not so much on himself and his cronies as on the wrecked lives of the generation of customers we never get to see.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A textbook case of a film that's befuddled by its subject.
50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Depp aside, the movie is higher on style than it is on substance.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The real problem is that there's nothing to George but the movie's props.
50
Chicago Reader
Reece Pendleton
Only Depp and Ray Liotta (as Jung's father) manage to animate this tired formula.

50
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
A watchable mediocrity at best.
50
Newsweek
David Ansen
When George’s fortunes start to go from bad to worse, so does the movie.
40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
If any element takes us through the movie, it's him (Depp).

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
We've just been to this party before and we know how it ends, again and again and again.

30
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
You can't make an epic about a mouse.

30
Time
Richard Corliss
Blow works for a scene or two, then stalls.
30
Slate
David Edelstein
This is an extraordinary -- and unfathomable -- piece of whitewashing: a true snow job.


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