Loving Pablo

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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!

The film should have been in Spanish with subtitles. It was impossible to follow the dialogue.

Terrible movie and very stupid pablo speaks inglish and in 82 he was 26 javier his 52, another stupid American producion

This is the worst portrayal of Pablo Escobar ever... having actors from Spain try to give Colombian accents to their characters is painful to watch... at some points they don't even try.... The whole movie feels like a bad conglomerate of Netflix's Narcos episodes. They sell it as being set from the point of view of Virginia, but that's only true at the beginning of the film the rest it's just old Pablo Escobar being Pablo Escobar.... If you want to see a more accurate portrayal of Pablo Escobar I would recommend a Colombian production with Colombian actors which is quite good and well documented, it is called "Pablo Escobar; el patrón del mal" produced by caracol... don't waste your time and money with this movie...

Never watched a movie from this side of the story.. but its in English.

source: Loving Pablo

It is rare when a film about a real life notorious monster can be offered in a biographical film that pulls the audience in to see all aspects of the character. Virginia Vallejo's book about the notorious drug lord of Colombia - Pablo Escobar - so aptly titled LOVING PABLO, HATING ESCOBAR - did that and she co-authored the script with Director Fernando León de Aranoa. The result is the same. It is a see all hear all examination by a journalist strikes up a romantic relationship with notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. The story has been well outlined - 'In 1981, Virginia Vallejo (Penélope Cruz) is a famous Colombia's journalist and TV news anchorwoman who is invited to a VIPs party in the ranch of Pablo Escobar (Javier Bardem) a low-born man who gained money and power with drug trafficking together his friends, turning them in the new generation of rich men of the country. Seduced by his charisma, Virginia starts a passionate love affair with Escobar despite he's a family man married with María Victoria (Julieth Restrepo). Along the 80's years, Escobar becomes famous in his try to better the life of the low-born people of Medellín and raising a politician carrier in the Colombia's congress, but Virginia starts to understand Escobar's real power controlling an empire of crime in Colombia and spreading his drug by all USA. It causes that the DEA's agent Shepard (Peter Sarsgaard) interests by his business and by Virginia, contacting her looking for a way to stop him. With the President Belisario Betancur allying with USA to stop Escobar and extradite him to judge outside Colombia, this last one starts a war in the country to eliminate all his enemies, politicians and non-politicians, unleashing his thirst for blood and his ambition to rule everything. Virginia, seeing as her carrier and her reputation are destroyed by Escobar, faces a extreme situation: to die at the hands of Escobar or by his enemies as an act of reprisal, or save herself helping Shepard to stop Escobar before he kills her.' Javier Bardem (apparently required to add fat to his character's body) is superb as is Penélope Cruz. The minor roles are very well played and while the crossover between Spanish and English confuses everyone no matter their linguistic skills, the story works on every level.