Escobar: Paradise Lost

Name: Escobar: Paradise Lost
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime
Released: June 26, 2015
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Ana Girardot, Benicio Del Toro, Brady Corbet, Carlos Bardem, Claudia Traisac

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RADiUS-TWC | Release Date: June 26, 2015 | R

Starring: Ana Girardot, Benicio Del Toro, Brady Corbet, Carlos Bardem, Claudia Traisac, Josh Hutcherson

Summary: In Colombia, an American surfer (Josh Hutcherson) meets the woman of his dreams - and then he meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar (Benicio del Toro).

Director: Andrea Di Stefano

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 120 min

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Todd McCarthy

Sep 13, 2014

It’s an impressive debut, an ambitious project pulled off with confidence. Read full review

Anthony Lane

Jun 22, 2015

Meanwhile, everyone in the theatre is thinking: Given that I paid good money to learn about the world’s most frightening cocaine king, why am I watching a movie about the world’s most stupid Canadian? Read full review

Glenn Whipp

Jun 25, 2015

When the plot circles back to those opening moments, the movie finds a momentum that ends spectacularly. And again: Benicio Del Toro is playing Pablo Escobar. What more do you need? Read full review

Kerry Lengel

Jun 25, 2015

After a predictable opening hour, Paradise Lost manages to deliver a surprise or two as it switches gears into a full-on thriller. But it never gets close to the epic heights to which it aspires. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jun 26, 2015

The name is right there in the title. And every time that Benicio Del Toro shows up as Pablo Escobar, we’re reminded of the movie that this could have been, making it easier to criticize the movie it chose to be instead. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jun 24, 2015

Hutcherson isn’t particularly adept at playing moral anguish, but the film maintains an electrifying tension for its first half as we wonder just how far his character will go. In the second half, though, the film degenerates into a desultory action movie as everybody starts creeping around trying to shoot one another. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Nov 24, 2014

Benicio Del Toro's performance is showy, a great actor's parade of indulgences that occasionally sets the deranged camp tone that should have been the narrative's starting point. Read full review

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MABUL

Jul 3, 2015

In the film Escobar: Paradise Lost, the editing generates excitement and anxiety, creating an interesting and spacial style that reflects a cinematic signature for Andrea Di Stefano’s impressive debut as a director. In addition, the hand held camera movement in every scene makes us feelIn the film Escobar: Paradise Lost, the editing generates excitement and anxiety, creating an interesting and spacial style that reflects a cinematic signature for Andrea Di Stefano’s impressive debut as a director. In addition, the hand held camera movement in every scene makes us feel emotions and sensations from Nick’s (Josh Hutcherson) point of view throughout the narrative. Furthermore, the very well detailed mis-en-scence reveals thorough study and research of locations, props, and costumes; intensity of colors and light in each frame are magnificent. Moreover, the efficient use of foreground, middle-ground, and background from beginning to end demonstrates a well-designed piece of art. In the plot, we find murder, corrupt governmental, news, and prison systems, a love story, and a web of lies crafted by power-hungry Pablo Escobar (Benicio Del Toro). It was important for the form not to get in the way of the content in order tell the story in a realistic way, involve the audience, and help them understand the social structure of Colombia at that time. Nick is the most important character in this love story, and he is an innocent victim, used as a marionette by Escobar, the world’s most dangerous person.… Expand