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Movie Overview
Cast
• Johnny Depp
• Penélope Cruz
• Jordi Molla
Director
• Ted Demme
MPAA Rating
R - For pervasive drug content and language, some sexuality and violence.
Blow (2001)

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OFCS Rating: 61% Fresh
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3/5
"Tiene una edición maravillosa, la fotografía es notable y la dirección bien lograda."  Cinenganos  Alex Ramirez

3/5
"It feels endless, and ultimately it becomes less an adventure story and instead a whiny melodrama."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

A-
"Johnny Depp gives a spellbindingly naturalistic performance that puts a sympathetic face on a powerfully individualistic man unable to shake a world of crime that brought him immense riches and eventually cost him everything he caredabout."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

3/4
"What works best in "Blow" is how well the cast embodies the characters, and how elaborately the plot uses them."  Cinemaphile.org  David Keyes

2.5/4
"The biggest problem with Blow is that Jung is such a complete moron."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

C
"The movie plays it real safe, as the only users the audience sees are the flashy Hollywood types that no one cares about."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

3/4
"A mature, emotionally resounding film that could have easily been released in December and garnered several Oscar nominations."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

B+
"Often wryly, ironically funny as well as achingly tragic."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

3/4
"Like the idea of different actors putting on a production of a classic play, Blow succeeds where it needs to. "  eFilmCritic.com  Erik Childress

B+
"Well-made and entertaining, exhibiting none of the depressing, reverential passivity that often mars biopics."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

C-
"A surprisingly flat and pedestrian treatment of a potentially intriguing story."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

3.5/4
"The movie boasts an uncommon level of intelligence to go along with the fine craftsmanship."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

2.5/4
"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."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

4/10
"I was wondering how I would feel about [Jung] at the end of the movie. My answer was this: I felt indifferent."  Window to the Movies  Jeffrey Chen

"Well made and engaging."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

5/10
"Does the movie make us care? Not really, which is the movie's basic problem."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

3/4
"Con un argumento inteligente y buenas actuaciones, es uno de esos filmes altamente recomendables que nadie debe dejar de ver."  Moviola  Jorge Avila Andrade

3/5
"The last half of the movie blew."  3BlackChicks Review  Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

B
"While it's tough to buy Jung as such a nice guy when he runs with hardcore, murdering drug traffickers, Johnny Depp proves to be one heck of a salesman."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

3.5/5
"The ending is a heartbreaker, pure and simple."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

3/4
"The story here is intriguing, but there is something hinted at in between the plot that really struck me."  Mark Reviews Movies  Mark Dujsik

"A film has to try much harder to get me to pity who's wallowing in a bed of his own making."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

2.5/4
"Shoots itself in the foot with one wrongheaded turn."  TheMovieReport.com  Michael Dequina

2.5/5
"All I have to say is, poor Georgie."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

4/5
"Não posso negar que Profissão de Risco é bem-sucedido: seu protagonista desperta simpatia. Isso é motivo de orgulho? Duvido muito."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

4/5
"Blow isn't really a classic, but it's a sobering story well-told."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

3/4
"Jung is portrayed very sympathetically in the story, maybe to a fault."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

8/10
"This chilling, disturbing, coke-drenched caper gets under your skin in its assertion that there's simply no way to stop the importation of drugs into this country."  www.susangranger.com  Susan Granger

D+
Read review  Flipside Movie Emporium  Jeremiah Kipp

2.5/4
Read review  Big Picture Big Sound  Joe Lozito

B
Read review  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

Read review  Philadelphia City Paper  Cynthia Fuchs

Read review  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

Read review  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

Read review  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 61% Fresh
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