Blow [Blu-ray]

Blow [Blu-ray]
by Ted Demme

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Actor: Franka Potente, Johnny Depp, Paul Reubens, Penelope Cruz, Rachel Griffiths
Director: Ted Demme
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video

DVD Reviews of Blow [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Pretty Alright Movie..Better than I expected
Summary: 4 Stars

All my items came on time...In regards to the movie I liked the story line. I was a little lost at first, but once it got started it really had me going. The ending is what really makes you say "that was pretty good". Worth the buy. Don't know how it got by without me knowing more about it.

DVD Review: Would recommend. Great movie. Good story.
Summary: 5 Stars

Johnny Depp did a great job of portraying the character in the story. I don't know if everything was written accurately according to the real life of the man, but the movie is entertaining. You are really able to empathize with the characters, and even though he is a drug dealer, you want to see him succeed because you really grow to feel for him.

DVD Review: Decent.
Summary: 3 Stars

This movie was just okay. I thought it would have been much better. Decent.

DVD Review: I can't feel my face
Summary: 5 Stars

Everything about this movie was great! The actors, story, directing, and everything else were excellent. This movie was a drama with many comedic and heartfelt moments. I recommend this movie to anyone with an open mind who wants to learn the interesting true story of George Jung.

DVD Review: Blow
Summary: 5 Stars

Very good movie. Kept me riveted to the end. Both Depp & Cruz are great in this film.

Description of Blow [Blu-ray]

Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/23/2008 Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Pg13

A briskly paced hybrid of Boogie Nights and Goodfellas, Blow chronicles the three-decade rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp), a normal American kid who makes a personal vow against poverty, builds a marijuana empire in the '60s, multiplies his fortune with the Colombian Medell?n cocaine cartel, and blows it all with a series of police busts culminating in one final, long-term jail sentence. "Your dad's a loser," says this absentee father to his estranged but beloved daughter, and he's right: Blow is the story of a nice guy who made wrong choices all his life, almost single-handedly created the American cocaine trade, and got exactly what he deserved. As directed by Ted Demme, the film is vibrantly entertaining, painstakingly authentic... and utterly aimless in terms of overall purpose.

We can't sympathize with Jung's meteoric rise to wealth and the wild life, and Demme isn't suggesting that we should idolize a drug dealer. So what, exactly, is the point of Blow? Simply, it seems, to present Jung's story as the epitome of the coke-driven glory days, and to suggest, ever so subtly, that Jung isn't such a bad guy, after all. Anyone curious about his lifestyle will find this film amazing, and there's plenty of humor mixed with the constant threat of violence and paranoid anxiety. Demme has also populated the film with a fantastic supporting cast (although Pen?lope Cruz grows tiresome as Jung's hedonistic wife), and this is certainly a compelling look at the other side of Traffic. Still, one wishes that Blow had a more viable reason for being; like a wild party, it leaves you with a hangover and a vague feeling of regret. --Jeff Shannon

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