best film of the year so far!

Rating: 10/10 (27 July 2001)

All I can say is that this film is brilliant. For those who complain about "flat dialogue", what do you expect? these are drug dealers we are dealing with here, not Cambridge grads - how do you expect them to talk? The film is an accurate and gritty realist portrayal of a man who lead an extraordinary life, a man whose only fault was "to have more ambition than he had talent". As for those who say we should not be sympathetic to a man who brought the misery of cocaine to millions of Americans, my response is that he was only the conduit and no one forces coke up anyones nose! - if he wouldnt have done it someone else wouldve. he is certainly no worse than the people who work in cigarette companies whose products kill exponentially more people than coke ever did!