'The Michael Jordan of criminals': how Narcos found a true villain in Pablo Escobar Read moreBecause everything about Pablo Escobar, the paunchy cocaine baron that Bardem effortfully portrays in this adaptation of the memoir Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar, was larger than life. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hard to beat: Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar in the Netflix’s Narcos. At least Cruz and Bardem appear to be having a ball with the 80s milieu and their characters’ outsized personalities. But Aranoa’s film forces these two diverting performances into regrettably done-to-death beats in a familiar rise-and-fall narrative. Like Escobar himself remaking the coca business in a bold, new and highly lucrative vision, Bardem and Cruz succeed by doing things their unique way.

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2017 00:56 UTC