Loving Pablo

I was blessed to be invited to LOVING PABLO preview by The Spain Actors' Guild UNIÓN DE ACTORES DE MADRID. Penélope's acting work and fashion statement gives you goosebumps from minute one she appears on screen giving life to Virginia Vallejo. Needless to say that Javier Bardem is one of the best actors in the world ever. The film is a magnificent film making work with a flawless casting. The actors' colombian accents talking English are great. I gave an 8 because a couple of violent scenes and texts are not nice for me to watch, but I understand it must absolutely reflect reality about ESCOBAR.

Javier Bardem is almost completely incoherent throughout most of the movie, and just sounds like someone who is drunk and has a mouthful of marbles. All around us were people who kept saying what did he say? I can understand him is he speaking English? Given the amount of money that actors are paid to portray a role these days they should have it should be written into their contract that there is a requirement for their dialogue to be delivered in a way that is clear and legible. If this is your craft and people cannot understand you then high time to take some elocution classes or look for another occupation. Like most reviews have stated this offering pales into comparison to the Narcos series, if you really must watch it then wait for a voice overdubbing version or look for full subtitles or you will be wasting your time. 1/10 because it wont let me vote zero.

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!