Not too shabby after all**SLIGHT SPOILERS**

Rating: Null/10 (13 July 2002)

a movie i hesitated to watch when i found out that depp was starrin in it, as i'm not a big fan of his. However i noticed it was a 'crime' genre movie, and from his previous performance of Donnie Brasco, i gave the movie a try. And it was worth it.
what i like about this movie is its ending, well it's sad but it is very modest. Moreover, the ending was not predictable unlike other movies and that is what makes the movie so great. This movie is not an academy award performance nor was the make up any more convincing (geroge jungs parents look just the same, especially his mother). However, the story took home the prize. The directing was great, Ted Demme sure did turn around many cliche's that we've seen. This movie reminded me of goodfellas and scarface (as mentioned by another commenter), mainly because of the ending and also because Ray Liotta is in goodfellas, and that the time being and drug trafficking was similir to scarface
i don't want to give out any spoilers on this movie, just bare with it and you'll enjoy it so all in all this movie was B+