No Blow

Rating: 9/10 (24 May 2020)

Or should it be yes Blow? Not to confuse though, the movie is good. And I wasn't surprised overall, but after a quite mediocre beginning, the movie did find a grip to hold me and entertain me until the end. Yes there have been quite a few movies that have a similar storyline, a similar structure of a man and his rise into crime, fame and/or money.
It's amazing to not just see Johnny Depp in a way more serious role and far removed from his Captain Jack Sparrow persona, but also someone like Ray Liotta, really downplaying and being as subtle as can be. Generally speaking the movie is very well cast and has a true story as a background to hold up anything it is telling us. Of course exaggerations are made, though I'm not too familiar with what actually happened to point these things out. The disc version (New Line did a thing called Infini Film, which I thought was quite cool) has a lot of background info for you to dive into though, if interested.