Cocaine Godmother (2017)
At the age of 17, Griselda Blanco, made her way to the U.S. with a fake passport with her first husband Carlos. Living in Queens with her three sons, Griselda became enticed by the money the drug world offered, and quickly became embroiled with local drug runners. Griselda masterminded the use of beautiful women, the elderly and children as the mules and created false-bottom suitcases to smuggle cocaine from Colombia.
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A complete mess of a film. Poor acting from everyone involved. No direction. No vision. A waste of a very interesting story and person.
Catherine Zeta Jones was superb, she mentioned it was her favorite part to play ever . A spectacular thriller that showed a women in charge from the early days. History in the making and worth viewing.
It's a marvel that they managed to pack so much into this Lifetime Television movie. There is enough material for a miniseries. As for production quality and style it's on par with Narcos. One good thing from Narcos is the narration of the DEA agent that helps make things clear along the way. The story of Griselda Blanco grips from her terrible childhood to her start and rise in the drug trade. The fantastic things that happen along the way are really so hard to believe it could only be a true story. Catherine Zeta Jones really gives it her all in this performance. She is superb at doing latino remember Zorro? She masters the madness drug fueled rages and bisexual passion expertly. The expression on her face shows such ugliness of the character on such a beautiful face. It's truly a superb performance. The mainly well cast supporting cast are convincing and clearly distinguished so there is no confusion. Narcos fans may spot a major character from Narcos in a very different role.This could have been a whole season of Narcos there is so much here. Well done Lifetime - it is one of their best true life movies.
Even for Lifetime standards this is a JUNK. Story line is weak (even with the polyamorous, bi or sexual fluidity subplot) , direction and cinematography looks like swiss cheese, as for acting, well is just as poor and predictable; the only thing sort of going was the make-up department, I suppose ( even that CZJ didn't look to radiant at Golden Globes). I don't know how many Latina actresses are in Hollywood, on a fast roll I can name 4 or 5 with out any effort, so my question is: Who was the genius, who came with the idea that CZJ, was a fit for Griselda Blanco?