Artless !

Rating: 3/10 (9 January 2011)

So what's here that we didn't see in - for instance - (Goodfellas - 1990)? I can answer that; the end's surprise when we discover that the lead's daughter is just a daydream which the lead has as a simple desire of a sinful man who cursed himself by privation, and the impossibility of connecting with what's natural or satisfying. Save that, everything was repeated, usual or artless.
The script is a long embodiment of any talk you watched before in (60 minutes). How could the direction agree with that? It did nothing either to polish the old and torn material!
I believe that there are 2 (Johnny Depp). One is vigorous and creative, doing his work with love (Benny & Joon, Ed Wood..). And one - on the contrary - is indifferent and rather lifeless, doing his work with the least efforts (The Astronaut's Wife, Once Upon a Time in Mexico..). It's obvious what kind of (Depp) that (Blow) has. He wanted the money, being in the market, whatever. His sense of being uninterested was more than noticeable.
(Penélope Cruz) is unsightly ridiculous here. Yes, I don't like her, but objectively she performed better in other movies. I thought this was one of her worst, especially the scenes of her as bugging hag!
I despised the countless scenes of doing drugs. They seemed given feely sometimes. Sure many moviemakers mirror themselves in their movies. And some of them do the same in terms of those scenes in specific (maybe as a cry of help out of addiction, or maybe for dyeing this very addiction as ordinary!). Anyway, after knowing that the movie's director (Ted Demme) died due to cocaine, within less than a year of (Blow)'s release, you have to put 2 and 2 together!
The last shot of the real (George Jung), as a smiling tragedy, is the only truthful moment. However, sorrowfully, it assures (Blow)'s character as a documentary more than a dramatic movie. The thing is whether the makers of it didn't ask themselves my question; what's here that we didn't see in other, not too far, better movies? Or they didn't watch these movies in the first place!
As a docudrama, it's kind of fair. And as a movie, it's poor version of richer ones.