Blow with more black people, Thailand instead of Mexico & Colombia, and heroin instead of coke.

Rating: 3/10 (28 March 2012)

I stopped watching about half way through. I'm a big fan of Blow, and after a little over an hour, I counted about 5 scenes that were just short from being exact duplicates of Blow scenes. I could have forgiven this, but the movie did a poor job of setting up the story. All of a sudden this guy decides to become a big time drug lord flying to Thailand to better the business. Why? Where'd that come from? Hm, the boss died so I think I'm going to do business with deadly Thai heroin suppliers cuz, well, just cuz. I mean, I know its based on a true story, and there were probably some plausible reasons behind his progression as drug kingpin, but I guess with all of the mimicking of Blow, I expected that part of the story to develop as well as it did in Blow. Still, fairly good acting and some parts of it kept me on my toes. Unfortunately it was not enough to keep my attention.