Escobar himself is an unprepossessing figure - he’s mangy, fat, sloppily dressed - but this may even be one of the things that ingratiates him with the people he’s like them, only bigger, and he speaks to the adoring crowd like a populist, down-to-earth politician who says he always has the interests of the poor at heart.Īcknowledging Nick’s doubts, Maria pooh-poohs her boyfriend’s disapproval of the cocaine trade, stressing the drug’s longtime medicinal use locally and claiming that her uncle is merely “exporting the national product.” Before long, in a scene equivalent to the opening wedding sequence in The Godfather, she takes him to a huge party at Escobar’s compound, where the host is seen frolicking in the pool with little kids it doesn’t take long for the agreeable, perennially upbeat Nick to be welcomed, at least superficially, into the family. Nick’s life takes a decisive turn once he becomes involved with the vivacious young beauty Maria (Spanish actress Claudia Traisac), who works in a local clinic and also happens to be a favorite niece of Escobar, who shortly turns up in the small town to dedicate the renovated health facility he’s financed. They’re easy-going and naïve as well as conspicuous at one point, a gang of local thugs tells them to clear off “their” land, a warning the boys ignore. Jumping back in time a few years, the film assumes a relaxed posture in keeping with the surfer boy lifestyle of Nick, who has come from Canada to hang in a tropical paradise with his brother ( Brady Corbet). For Nick, this will also oblige him to kill an unknown peasant who will guide him to the spot, something he’s never done before. Before that, however, he calls in six trusted lieutenants, conspicuously including young gringo Nick (Hutcherson), who pledge absolute loyalty and agree to transport large stashes of unidentified valuables in remote locations.
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