We've just been to this party before and we know how it ends, again and again and again.
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04/09/01
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Blow (2001)
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Reviews Counted:134
Fresh:73
Rotten:61
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: With elements that seem borrowed from movies like Goodfellas and Boogie Nights, Blow is pretty much been-there-done-that despite another excellent performance from Johnny Depp. It, also, becomes too sentimental at the end.
Theatrical Release:Apr 6, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $52,765,901
Synopsis: George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and constantly berated by his mother (Rachel Griffiths). So he sets off for California to live on... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Molla, Franka Potente
Director: Ted Demme
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Reviews for Blow
an aspiring epic that is much like George Jung himself, who admits in a voice-over narration near the end that his aspirations were greater than his talent.
04/09/01
Blow has a **** opening followed by 90 minutes of *1/2... Blow limps to its end, in a long slump after a quick rush, a bit, I guess, like cocaine.
04/08/01
Jung is portrayed very sympathetically in the story, maybe to a fault.
04/07/01
The last half of the movie blew.
04/07/01
Often wryly, ironically funny as well as achingly tragic.
04/06/01
What works best in "Blow" is how well the cast embodies the characters, and how elaborately the plot uses them.
04/06/01
Depp, as usual, gives a subtle, textured performance, and the supporting cast is good, especially Rachel Griffiths and Ray Liotta as Jung’s parents.
04/06/01
Blow is strong in characters, acting, and its ability to provoke thought.
04/06/01
Quite impressive in size, scope and delivery.
04/06/01
Has a dusty, encyclopedic feel to it.
04/06/01
The ending is a heartbreaker, pure and simple.
04/06/01
Blow can't sustain the high.
04/06/01
Top CriticA dizzyingly seductive criminal whirlpool of money and drugs that sucks the audience in.
04/06/01
The movie never delivers the highs promised by its ad campaign.
04/06/01
An extraordinary -- and unfathomable -- piece of whitewashing.
04/06/01
Blow fades a bit in its second half, weighed down by a need to closely follow Jung's life. But even then, the actors are so compelling that it's just a mild discomfort.
04/06/01
Well made and engaging.
04/06/01
A mediocre biopic.
04/06/01
Top CriticA rather banal portrait of an insipid guy who got rich selling nose candy and lived to regret it.
04/06/01
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