Did you people see the same film I saw?

An Exercise In Nonsense

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I am surprised by the praise this series has rendered here. Me and my wife is puzzled how this story has survived not only it's first season, but three. In comparison with Narcos, this one give us an impression of a misunderstood family father who just was nailed as some scapegoat. Mexican narcotic cartelles are, as we learned over the years, the most violent, murdering bunch of ultra criminals in modern history. El Chapo depicts absolutely nothing of this. Nada! When a murder for once is depicted - a policeman in il chapos custody - you see him being taken out of sight and after a while you hear a gun sot. Thats about all that Guzman godfather let us know about who he really was and why USA got him extradicted. Shame on Mexican producers who cannot handle and tell your own history. I hope there will be an American remake! The history is there. Someone capable should tell it.

I saw this new series title on Netflix but was never interested in clicking on it even though I was a fan of Narcos. Then one boring day I started watching El Chapo. Wow what a great and amazing series! The 1st season was slow but what made me fall in love was the 2nd season. It blew even Narcos out of the water with violence and warfare, something some reviewers have compliant about here, the lack of violence. The 2nd season of El Chapo has more violence than any season from Narcos. I did not know what El Chapo had actually met Pablo Escobar in real life, now that took me for surprise. Watch this series its amazing!

This excellent and involving Netflix joint venture about El Chapo is mesmerizing. The story is just so darn good as only a true story can be. The lead actor looks like him. After finishing Season 1 I can't wait for more. I can see this is a real detailed series which will show how and why he became the person he is.Many watching this have just seen Narcos and comparisons are inevitable. Narcos is easier to understand for English speaking viewers with the narration. The cinematography and settings and more beautiful. The cast of Narcos is more attractive than the real life characters - unrealistically so. El Chapo is harder to follow without the narrator to clarify the plot. There are a lot of characters and the cast is a bit similar - some of the girlfriends/wives look alike as do some of the supporting drug dealers. El Chapo doesn't glamorize things for sure.I kind of wish the Narcos people had done this show in their style. But it still is very very good. Completely blows away any fictional thrillers about the drug trade.

What has struck me the most about this well-acted series is the sense of impending doom under which "El Chapo" lived. He worked hard and ruthlessly as a prolific murderer to become a "Patron" only to find his position always at the edge of a precipice. He is constantly betrayed, undermined, falsely accused (of the Cardinal's murder)and pursued by assassins. His life would make one wonder why anybody would be stupid enough to want his job. There would be a ton of cash but no peace ever in site for such a man or his family. I know of his impoverished upbringing. And that growing and trafficking drugs was the only way to make money in his isolated community. Multiple generations of his family were in the trade as Marijuana and Opium growers. His cousins were in it. He was born into it. But you would think that there would enough examples of how this would not end well for an intelligent man to make the decision to get out. Apparently in El Chapo's position it doesn't matter how smart one is. And you wonder if the lucky ones are not the ones who get killed early in their careers. Instead of living life constantly on the run from everyone and under daily mental suffering. This is a tale of some one willingly allowing himself to be sucked into an abyss. He had to know that if they didn't take his life, they would still take everything else. And they did. What you might question is the mentality of some one who continues going down that road despite knowing what lies at the end. And I also must question the mentality of a popular sub-culture in Mexico that worships and admires these "Narcos." They write songs about them. Do they not have eyes to see what happens to these people? El Chapo's life was not a pleasant one.