Gripping and touching

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2004)

*minor spoilers*
This is a movie about George Jung, who must have been one of the major drug dealers in the USA in the 70s and 80s. Knowing that fact, you might be tempted to think that this film was resembling `Traffic` (the only other newer great movie about drugs that comes to my mind right now) - but it is totally different. In ´Blow´, the consequences of taking drugs are not being warned about explicitely - this is a movie about drug dealers, not about drug addiction.
The movie focusses on Jung and the story of his life (another brilliant performance by Johnny Depp). His biography is told in a fast-paced and interesting way, and we get to know the reasons and the social background that made Jung become one of the most successful drug dealers in the USA ... but the movie also displays the deeply sad consequences of his actions and the ways in which he was betrayed.
Get ready to feel pity even for a drug dealer like George Jung ... a masterpiece.