Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
Thinking about going to see it tonight. Is it any good?
Has anyone seen Escobar: Paradise lost?
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Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
I didn't ask thatI saw it last Friday, I will post a little review in a few minutes.
I will say that Benicio Del Tori is incredible as Escobar, a measure, subtle, nuanced performance that is absolutely brilliant. Every scene, every line, whether he is playing with children in a pool, or reading 'The Jungle Book' as an ominous threat, I was transfixed whenever Del Toro was on screen. Brilliant.
That said, the dude from Hunger Games, one of the two male leads, is as boring, dull, lifeless and bland as possible. The quintessential white man with a conscience who the gorgeous Maria, Pablo's niece falls for. In short, a p*ssy boy scout whose only traits seem to be his white skin and innocence. His character is stiff and nearly derails the movie every time he is onscreen, maybe it's his acting, maybe the writing, but he is dreadful. And the entire story is mostly constructed around him, making it difficult to call it a good movie. fukk it, its not. The direction is competent, the story ranges from hackneyed and unbelivable to a decently crafted thriller, never transcending into the kind of gorgeous, bleak take on Escobar I would love to see.
By the end, the movie has lost all but Del Toro's moments on screen, and descends into an absurd action movie, a C level late 90's movie, complete with henchmen and UZI's car chases and the unlikely hero dispensing trained gunmen with ease. It's ludacrious, predictable, and without any suspense or anything to distinguish these sequences from the hundreds of others I have watched in better or worse movies.
Del Toro's performance is worth seeing, more then worth seeing, it's a shame the price of admission is such a cliched mess of a movie.
I will say that Benicio Del Tori is incredible as Escobar, a measure, subtle, nuanced performance that is absolutely brilliant. Every scene, every line, whether he is playing with children in a pool, or reading 'The Jungle Book' as an ominous threat, I was transfixed whenever Del Toro was on screen. Brilliant.
That said, the dude from Hunger Games, one of the two male leads, is as boring, dull, lifeless and bland as possible. The quintessential white man with a conscience who the gorgeous Maria, Pablo's niece falls for. In short, a p*ssy boy scout whose only traits seem to be his white skin and innocence. His character is stiff and nearly derails the movie every time he is onscreen, maybe it's his acting, maybe the writing, but he is dreadful. And the entire story is mostly constructed around him, making it difficult to call it a good movie. fukk it, its not. The direction is competent, the story ranges from hackneyed and unbelivable to a decently crafted thriller, never transcending into the kind of gorgeous, bleak take on Escobar I would love to see.
By the end, the movie has lost all but Del Toro's moments on screen, and descends into an absurd action movie, a C level late 90's movie, complete with henchmen and UZI's car chases and the unlikely hero dispensing trained gunmen with ease. It's ludacrious, predictable, and without any suspense or anything to distinguish these sequences from the hundreds of others I have watched in better or worse movies.
Del Toro's performance is worth seeing, more then worth seeing, it's a shame the price of admission is such a cliched mess of a movie.
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Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
Ouch. Guess I'll skip going to the the theater for it
