Cocaine Godmother

Many years ago Catherine Zeta Jones was discovered in a cute role on a TV series in the UK. Her acting back then is far superior to this effort in this thing. Which is a shame. Oh well it was raining whilst I watched this, so nothing else to do...

This movie was excellent. The direction was good and the acting as fantastic. Catherine Zeta-Jones's acting was amazing. She never broke character and her facial expressions were too good. She really portrays the badassness of Griselda Blanco. I was in love throughout the entire movie. If I could delete it from my brain and watch it again.

If you know the real story of Griselda Blanco you'll realize how bad this movie is. Doesn't even come close to what really happened. You want to watch something, watch Cocaine Cowboys.!!! Because of that documentary, I really do not know why this movie was made.

The real Cocaine Grandmother, Griselda Blanco was known for executing literally hundreds of men, women, and even children who either interfered with her drug smuggling empire, or who simply pissed her off. In reality, being remotely involved with Griselda Blanco and her drug cartel empire was enough of a reason for considering a person to already have one foot in the grave including her sons and various husbands. This loosely based biography has the attractive Catherine Zeta-Jones attempting rather poorly to represent Griselda Blanco as the bi-sexual mother and wife as well as the vicious and extremely homely real-life cocaine grandmother. What results is a less than inspiring attempt at a high level historical adaptation of the cocaine grandmother, her sons, husbands, and lovers outwitting the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agents) for decades all rolled up in a two (2) hour film I would call a non event, worthy of only a mediocre 5 out of 10 rating.

I knew there would be lots of them. She was cast because she was the best option. She did a great acting job even if the movie wasn't factually correct, 6.1

The life of drug lord Griselda Blanco, a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine trade. 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. With money rolling in, her sons abandoned school and entered the family business instead. CZ Jones is good in the movie but man it is painfully slow. It's like they had to add a ton of padding to fill the allotted TV slot on Lifetime . The movie should have been in a 90minute slot -- in other words with the commercials out about 65-70 minutes . The way it is now, it's just drags on and on until you want to shut it off.