mholmez

If you go into this film hoping for an historically accurate portrayal of the battle of Stalingrad then go watch a documentary, if you are however looking to be entertained by an action packed and gritty WW2 movie set in the city of Stalingrad, then go ahead and pick this up because it's nothing if not entertaining.

The movie is about the real life sniper Vasily Zaitsev played by Jude Law and his exploits during the famous battle, the beginning of the movie is complete chaos as our main hero is sent to the front and we see the besieged and infamous city for the first time. It's honestly worth watching this movie just for the opening scene alone which is just incredibly well done in all aspects and portrays some of the horrors that the soviet troops would have witnessed when arriving there.

Overall this is a highly entertaining war movie, fantastic CGI for the time, everything is well shot, the set pieces are gorgeous and even the acting and characters are well done.

All that said this is of course a Hollywood production, don't expect much in the way of historical accuracy and definitely expect a silly love story (though not the worst) and everyone speaking English with poor Russian and German accents.

I have always been fascinated with the gruesome tale of Griselda Blanco, from her early life which was beyond horrendous to becoming one of the biggest Colombian drug lords in history. There has been a couple of documentaries and even other fictional tales where she was featured but in my honest opinion this is by far the most entertaining.

Sofia Vergara stars as Griselda and she does a fantastic job portraying the ruthless and savage La Madrina, the series begins with her fleeing Columbia and mainly centers around her time in Miami during the infamous cocaine wars.

The series is very well done, the acting is superb, the characters are mostly well developed, the action is well shot and it does not shy away from the brutality that occurred during that time (even though it cannot live up to what really happened)

Vergara though really carries this one, she is simply fantastic in almost every single scene, going from this cool and charismatic drug kingpin to the savage, strung out psychopath who would murder you for looking at her the wrong way.

The only thing that lets this one down in my opinion is that it's not completely accurate historically, some things are changed here and there and I personally don't see any reason why, the true story is riveting enough so there was no need, but still it didn't detract much if at all from it being a great show, one that is easily on par with the other Narco series.

I was really hesitant to watch this film due to all the bad reviews but it looked so interesting and I love sci-fi so I thought why not, surely it's not as bad as the reviews make it seem, well unfortunately I was wrong, it's without question very bad.

Really the only thing the movie has going for it is the CGI and cinematography, it truly is a visual delight for the eyes and for that alone I gave it 4 stars, everything else however is just plain terrible, the acting is wooden, the characters are uninteresting and poorly developed, the story is rushed and the writing laughable, it literally has nothing else going for it and being a visual treat doesn't make a movie good.

So to summarize, it looks good and little else, if you want anything more than incredible CGI prepare to be disappointed.