Nice effects though.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

I was really looking forward to this movie. Javier and Penelope's acting raised the whole atmosphere of the movie. I have seen many comments on being not understandable in the original language. I am going to watch it again because I have seen the dubbed version and that was very satisfying.Besides this, when you are focusing on the narrative style of storytelling you are presented a decent movie. Worth to watch ! Waaay better that the rating it got in my opinion.

Sadly I missed a lot of what was said because Javier Bardem just mumbles his way through the whole thing.

What's worse? The drug dealer, or the drug dealer's whore? That's what this is. The story of his most ardent mistress. Are we meant to feel sorry for her? Is she meant to be sympathetic when she was nothing more than a prostitute for the world's biggest drug dealer? She was complicit in what Escobar did. She knew what was going on, yet, her choice was to act as if nothing was wrong. What's worse, the people who do the crime or the ones who willingly profit from it? There's so much wrong with this movie:* It needs subtitles, as someone else pointed out, why have Spanish actors try to speak English and then with accents so thick that you have to listen to the dialog 3-4 times to understand even a single sentence? * Penelope Cruz was not a good choice. She is past the age of doing hot and young. Motherly, sure, but not a hot young thing that she still thinks she is. She just didn't pull it off * If you're going to cast a great actor like Javier Bardem in the role, how about you not ask him to speak in unintelligible English? He's shown that he can speak English very well in other English-focused movies, but apparently the director thought frustrating the audience with really think accents was a good idea. It wasn't.The acting is just bad. The action is just bad. The movie is 2 hours too long.

On it's own this may be a decent movie. But if you watched Narcos before this movie, it only seems like a hasty summary of the series, told from the viewpoint of one of the less interesting characters. This, combined with the fact that it should have been in Spanish, and the annoying voice over, makes it a pain to watch. One upside: Javier Bardem is actually good as Pablo!