A Cheap Dime-a-Dozen Scarface Clone

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2019)

I had completely forgotten this movie existed until I saw it here. Johnny Depp stars as an unconvincing direct-to-video Tony Montana cosplayer, without the era-defining exuberance, energy or definitive style of the movie they're lazily aping. He traffics, he gets the power, he does the crime, he gets sentenced to do time, yaddayaddayadda, nothing here you haven't seen before. This comes at the tail-end of those maudlin Benny And Joon era Johnny Depp flicks, an insipid, bland, visually uninspired bargain-bin attempt at recapturing Donnie Brasco. A cheap entertainment, forgettable pusher-man routine going thru all the motions, and nothing more.