Loving Pablo (2018)
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
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Truly the worst movie I've ever seen in a theater
Redundant and unnecessary.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
The movie is well balanced, nicely written and directed and Penélope and Javier Bardem give as always wonderful performance. The biggest downside is that it´s in English - it definitely should have been in Spanish. Listening to the heavy accents of the actors was very tiring and Javier mumbles all the time and you can hardly understand what he´s saying. It would have been a great movie if they all spoke Spanish. There were also two horrible violent scenes (involving a dog and a horse) that were too much. The subject of the movie is known to death and yet again, it was well measured and not boring to watch.
Never watched a movie from this side of the story.. but its in English.
Excellent film for adults with experienced and good filmmaking. Compared to the serial Narcos, which is one of the highlights of the genre with an excellent formal aspect, Loving Pablo maybe 10 % loses. Another of his weaknesses is a short two-hour footage that attempts to cover whole life of Pablo Escobar. Fernando León de Aranoa, however, is a very skilled director and imaginative writer, and Javier Barde is a better actor than Wagner Moura in Narcos. Whoever watched all the parts of the series, of course loses a moment of surprise. However, when I look at the pictures that were going to go to cinemas this year, when there are dozens of teen films with recycled scenarios on one such adult film, the final score is clear. Think about it. 85%
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!