Miami, Florida, is the destination for filmmaker Billy Corben in this exploratory documentary on how the community was affected by a deluge of Colombian cocaine in the 1970s and '80s.
Theatrical Release: October 27, 2006 (LIMITED)
Review 1:
"[The movie] comes at you as a vast bloody river of underworld information." -- Grade: B-
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.55 11/03/2006
Review 2:
"[F]ast-moving....[With] 118 minutes of Warholian imagery..."
Source: Box Office
p.77 12/01/2006
Review 3:
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is a solid investigation into the real Tony Montoyas of the world, and one that Crockett and Tubbs would no doubt endorse."
Source: Empire
p.98 12/01/2007
Review 4:
3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t manages to provoke and titillate....Director Billy Corben has built the film around the true confessions of drug-runners..."
Source: Uncut
p.123 03/01/2008
Review 5:
"Corben has managed a heroic job of compelling archive police tapes, contemporary news reports and tourist promotional films..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.58 12/01/2007