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Cocaine Cowboys (2006)

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Reviews Counted:49

Fresh:34

Rotten:15

Average Rating:6.4/10

Consensus: As frenetic, thrilling, and lacking in subtletly as its drug of focus...and just as likely to prompt some hard questions after it's gone.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Theatrical Release:Oct 27, 2006 Limited

Synopsis: The cocaine trade of the 70s and 80s had an indelible impact on contemporary Miami. Smugglers and distributors forever changed a once sleepy retirement community into one of the world's most... The cocaine trade of the 70s and 80s had an indelible impact on contemporary Miami. Smugglers and distributors forever changed a once sleepy retirement community into one of the world's most glamorous hot spots, the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin cartel. By the early 80s, Miami's tripled homicide rate had made it the murder capital of the country, for which a Time cover story dubbed the city "Paradise Lost." With COCAINE COWBOYS, filmmaker Billy Corben – whose first feature Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent, caused a sensation at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival – paints a dazzling portrait of a cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth, evidenced by the latest manifestation, NBC/Universal's Miami Vice, opening July 28th. Composer of the original "Miami Vice" theme, Jan Hammer, provides the score. --© Magnolia Pictures [More]

Director: Billy Corben

Director: Billy Corben
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

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Documentarian Billy Corben's revealing film exposes the methods and players in South Florida's drug trade that literally built the city of Miami that we know today with billions of dollars in blood cash.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/24/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

With a nearly two-hour running time that includes its share of blowhards, repetition, and cheesy attempts to heighten drama, Cocaine Cowboys brings to mind an unfortunate comparison: Miami Vice. The movie.

Full Review Source: Washington City Paper | comment Comment
03/06/08
Tricia Olszewski
Tricia Olszewski
Washington City Paper

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Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
11/24/07
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Grisly crime scene snaps accompany the story, which makes Miami Vice look like a tea party and Florida like hell on earth.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
11/23/07
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

The haystacks of cash and coke are laughably insane – as is the head-count: thousands of people were gunned to death. This is the only state in the world where Scarface might raise a smile.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
11/23/07
James Christopher
James Christopher
Times [UK]

At nearly two hours, Cocaine Cowboys (appropriately) doesn't know when to stop talking, but as a chronicle of a demented epoch, it's both entertaining and just about definitive.

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment Comment
11/23/07
Ned Beauman
Ned Beauman
Film4

Without narration, the doc has scant moral compass, its very title celebrating the machine gun-wielding mercenaries involved.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
11/23/07
Emma Morgan
Emma Morgan
Total Film

Too often the film crosses the line between recording his subjects' illegal activities and aggrandising them.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
11/23/07
Neil Smith
Neil Smith
BBC

It’s the sort of glamour-meets-violence drugs-crime story on which lads’ mags thrive: unqualified, over-reverent and hysterical.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
11/22/07
Dave Calhoun
Dave Calhoun
Time Out

Fast-paced and fascinating, but a little too frenetic for its own good.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
11/03/07
Ross Bennett
Ross Bennett
Empire Magazine

Rich in detail and fascinating characters.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International
N/R

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01/19/07
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

There's so much compelling material here, all of it salacious and dangerous and so enjoyable that you might just feel a little guilty afterward.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | comment Comment
12/08/06
Josh Bell
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly

Cocaine Cowboys is a fascinating look at a time when Miami was so flush with cash from cocaine deals that it was completely buffered from a nationwide recession.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
12/07/06
Jason Ferguson
Jason Ferguson
Orlando Weekly

The Jan Hammer music on the soundtrack works overtime to assure us that Cocaine Cowboys is the real, nastier version of Miami Vice

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
12/01/06
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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11/18/06
Marrit Ingman
Marrit Ingman
Austin Chronicle
N/R

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Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
11/11/06
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

This is an ugly film, but with an undeniable allure.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
11/10/06
G. Allen Johnson
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
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It's watchable, but like gorging on every rotten issue of the old Confidential magazine.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
11/10/06
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

Forget Scarface and Miami Vice. Cocaine Cowboys is the real deal -- a down-and-dirty look at the high living and illegal drugs that dominated south Florida in the 1980s.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
11/10/06
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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