Python Hyena Blow (2001): Dir: Ted Demme / Cast: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ray Liotta, Paul Reubens, Cliff Curtis: Based on a true story with Johnny Depp playing a drug addict whom will meet his daughter for the first time after years of separation. They engage in heartfelt conversation until he is made aware that she was never there. He glances hesitantly but the promise he had broken to his daughter before his prison sentence has long slipped his sanity. Title refers to his previous life until his addiction made it vanish as if snorting the drug made everything of value scatter like dust. It begins with his father's bankruptcy while his mother left home and eventually betrays him to the police. Film chronicles his days of selling marijuana to parole into Mexican territory. Structure is repetitious with painful consequences. Insightful directing by Ted Demme whose credits include Beautiful Girls and Life. Depp is tremendous as someone caught up in self deception while losing what matters. Penelope Cruz as his screaming wife is unfortunately unsympathetic. Ray Liotta steals scenes as his father who stands by his son despite his mistakes and his own. Paul Reubens stands out as a drug kingpin. Cliff Curtis is also featured as someone Depp goes into business with during his spiral into disaster. Great visual flair about a man who blew away everything that mattered most. Score: 6 ½ / 10

jimbo-53-186511 George Jung (Johnny Depp) is a young boy living with his parents in Boston, Massachusetts. His childhood is difficult because his parents are suffering from money problems. These money worries cause many a rift between George's parents. As a result of all the problems that being poor has caused his family, George announces that he'll make sure that he's never poor when he gets older. When he becomes a teenager, both he and his best friend Tuna move to California and soon discovers that drugs are an easy way to make a quick buck. However, as George discovers, the lifestyle that he accustoms himself to isn't all glamour and his actions end up having far reaching consequences.I think part of the problem that I had with this film is that I didn't find it particularly insightful. Despite the fact that the film clocks in at around the 2 hour mark, I left the film feeling as though I'd never really learnt much about George. I'm assuming that this was intended partly as a character study of sorts, but for me the writers didn't give George enough depth for this aspect to really work.There were other narrative issues in this film such as writing out the character of Tuna. After George is released from prison, we're told that George is living in Mexico and that's it. This may be what actually happened, but it seemed a very lazy way to write out someone who I considered to be a fairly important character. Another problem that I had with this film is that it felt repetitive (particularly after the first hour) and it did get to a point where it started to feel a bit boring. This wasn't helped by the fact that I just didn't care about any of the characters - not because they were bad but just because they weren't developed. I also thought it was a bit of a cop-out that George lost all his money due to the fact that the bank ended up nationalised which resulted in the Government seizing all his funds. I'll admit that came as a surprise, but not in a good way. It actually almost made me feel sorry for him.There are some good aspects to this film; I thought Johnny Depp was excellent in the lead role and I also thought that Molia was excellent in his respective role. I also liked the fact that the writers told the story pretty straight and didn't seem to really glorify George at any point. However, by telling the story straight it did mean that the film wasn't always as exciting or engaging as it perhaps could, and should have been. It just needed a bit more life to it.Despite all its flaws, Blow does end strongly and the ending is actually very moving. Whilst I thought it was an OK film, I didn't feel that it was anything more than that due to its rather poor development of characters, the repetitive and meandering nature of the narrative, and its severe lack of energy.

SnoopyStyle George Jung grew up in a poor struggling family in Massachusetts. He vows to never live that way. As a young man, he and his friend Tuna (Ethan Suplee) want to sell marijuana. Stewardess Barbara (Franka Potente) introduces them to a real dealer Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens). They grow their business with Barbara transporting for them. They even go down to Mexico to buy from the source. He gets arrested and Barbara dies from cancer. The group scatters. While serving time in Danbury, his cellmate Diego Delgado (Jordi Molla) connects him to the Medellín cocaine cartel. He starts smuggling cocaine and reconnects with Derek. He becomes the middle man between Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis) and cocaine dealing of Derek. At Diego's wedding, he meets his future wife Mirtha (Penélope Cruz). Eventually Diego discovers Derek's identity and double-crosses George.The movie is covering a lot of a big life. At times, it feels like the movie only scratches the surface. It's a lot of highlights or lowlights of a person. It would probably be more effective to narrow the focus to start from meeting Diego. The movie needs a partner or a foil for Johnny Depp to play against. Diego seems to be the natural choice and needs to be in the movie from beginning to end. Johnny Depp gives a compelling performance. It would be great if another character would loom just as large.

shreekara-1995 "You be what you want to be, you pursue to be good you be so, if you hold the path that takes you down then that's it, it's your pretty life, make a right decision before you had to repent for what you had done, coz life doesn't come with an eraser or a correction pen"'A normal young youthful guy finds some difficulties with some finance and finds a lateral path to gain some dollars and get involved in some mischievous task of smuggling illegal drugs and get into the world of dreadful white powder, entirely co incidental' this what you predict with all those young boys who got involved in some drug smuggling, but it's not in the case of 'George Jung', he entered the world of drug with intentional just by looking at its profitable side, he could had led a happy life without getting involved in such bad stuff but he entered, and the result is the name - 'Boston George', huge cocaine trader ever seen in US history, he begins with minor distribution of Marijuana on the bay of California but gradually his greed of earning lot dollars makes him to get involved in large scale drug smuggling, but he gets caught while smuggling nearly 600 pounds of marijuana in Chicago, though he get out from legal clutches he is again caught handed to federals by his mother itself during his visit to his early house in New England, he is sent to prison in Connecticut and there he hits the lottery of smuggling cocaine with his new friend Diego, he gets contact with some huge drug dealers and starts to smuggle huge amount of cocaine, meanwhile he gets married to a girl by name Mirtha and leads a happy life, his life changes after the birth of his daughter, he gets cheated by his friend Diego in the business and leave the drug business, but he is busted again in his birthday party and faces various issues like unstable family condition, he loses his money and become popper, after his release he tries to rebound the relation with his daughter and promises her to take to California with him, the place she had earlier wished to go, George again holds the path of smuggling drugs to make some money but he get busted and sent to imprisonment for nearly 60 years and thus breaking his promise to his daughter, he records a tape addressing his father that he repents for whatever he had done and realizes his mistake and now he got to know his words that 'money is not real', he sees his daughter who had come to visit him but it just get to be his imagination, thus the film ends up with a credit lines.Such a wonderful script had been neatly portrayed on the screen by the director Ted Demme, Johnny Deep is just outstanding with his performance he shows up with perfectionism, if you really want to know about notorious drug smuggler 'George Jung' then this movie is the better watch, great movie with great message.