Good movie with very questionable morals

Rating: 8/10 (30 August 2001)

If you want the story about real life criminals trying to score played out by some of the best actors this is what you get in this movie. You get Californian surf and smoke culture of the late sixties as well as a long review of the introduction of cocaine in the all-too-willing American society of the eighties. You also get to see a Johnny Depp in different sizes and forms and lots of good music and other well-placed actors doing what they do best.
However, even if the movie is very good and entertaining perhaps we get more than a typical high-budget film normally serves you. What we also, sadly, get is the story of a money-mad drug trafficker leaning on saying to us all "oh poor guy he just doesn't get a break from anybody" (including his too angry mother and mean Feds). I mean no-one could have possibly contributed to the script but the bad guy himself.
I should think a big cocaine trafficker is a pretty mean fella with blood on each hand, but in this movie he is all too nice and pleasant. They don't even stop at (indirectly) criticizing his poor daughter in writing on the screen.
Still, it's well worth the money.