This is an accurate portrayal of Cuban drug lords.

Rating: Null/10 (19 June 2003)

Violent, sure. And, I admit, a little hokey in the final scene. (Are there no police in Miami? Didn't anyone hear all that gunfire?) I am a retired law enforcement officer with lengthy experience in narcotics enforcement and I can tell you from experience that this is exactly the way the upper-tier drug trafficers live there lives. Language too foul for you? Watch Snow White then, because this is exactly the way these people talk. If anything, it is understated in the movie. The screenplay should have received an Academy Award for accuracy of material, if such an award exists. Al Pacino should have been nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. Anyone who has ever spent any time around high-level drug trafficers would immediately agree with that. I saw one review of the movie in which the reviewer was put off that they were speaking English in the movie instead of Spanish, and somehow that took away from the authenticity. While it's true that in real life they would be conversing in their native language, I say "Get over it." Sub-titles would have drawn too much attention away from the plot. This is the best movie of it's kind I have ever seen and may be my favorite movie of all time.