Better title would be "BLEW IT"

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2006)

It was the 70s: the Stones were on the jukebox, Pablo Escobar was on the prowl and coke really was it. Blow is a blast, Johnny Depp plays George Jung, A 70s fella who who stumbles into the drug business almost bu accident. He starts with small time weed, but dissatisfied with the numbers, trades up to dealing on a cross-country basis. a bust sets him back, but while in Jail he hooks up with a South-American who promises to plug him into the cocaine mainline. Through Diego(the South-American), Jung meets Pablo Escobar, the Che Guevara of Class A, and together they mastermind the rise of cocaine in affluent America. Jung takes to the high life immediately and for a while the film has a wholesome buddy-movie quality to it. Clearly there has to be payback for the good times. Jung lands himself a surly Latino wife, has a daughter and finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage, much like that of his parents. Ultimately Blow doesn't really have a lot to tell us about George Jung except, perhaps, that he blew it in Easy Rider style, but their is much to enjoy on the way.