Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

tru1221 This is one of the finest documentaries ever made!

Michael Radny Cocaine Cowboys a beautiful shot film, if you are into heavy 80's news style, but the overall documentary is boring. Who cares about the people that smuggled coke into America; who cares about the people that found out about it and put a stop to it, the documentary doesn't give us anything to care about. In the end the style of the film gets irritating, the people pointlessly unammusing and the film being pretentiously bad. Nothing to get excited about here. The story is told in a bland way, the interviewees boring and the substance nonexistent. Maybe one of the worst documentaries I've seen and that is saying something. Really pointless, and to be honest, how could you build on what a mess they have made with this news story. Keep away Netflix fans.

filip-svacek 2006 Version: What I liked most about this "documentary", is that there is no voice-over that says us what to thing and it is just testimony of people who were in "the game" at the time. But when you add great editing, fantastic 80's soundtrack and footage you get story, that puts lot of movies like Scarface to shame. I have problem calling this a documentary, because lot of testimonies, especially from the people involved in drug trafficking are pretty unreliable. But who cares? After it ends you wanna see more. You will understand what made Miami so special and you gonna see the bigger picture behind the city. 9/102013 Version: For start, this version is not just 30 minutes extended, it has about 5-10% original footage. It is not near as enjoyable or interesting as first version, because all aspects what made first version great are not there. Soundtrack is mediocre remake from the original, it doesn't have that movie atmosphere and it is too long. There are few interesting facts, for instance you gonna learn that John Roberts was deeper involved than you would have think from the first version. This version has more reliable testimonies and it is less "glorifying", but the charm is gone. 6/10

samuelsson91 Shocking. With only this one word you could best express the movie Cocaine Cowboys. This document about the beginnings of drug business in the USA is brutal, natural and informative. I really liked that the “authors” told us also numbers, strategies, trading, techniques … everything what you could join with drug mafiosos. Prisoners told us how they were laughing about films in cinema or TV (for example Miami Vice) and they characterized it as stupidity. You can see the changes of the Miami City (especially infrastructure). It is apparent that police was, is and will always be one step behind and that this functional business is unstoppable. It is interesting that you are not bored, also because brutal shots (police photos), which you can see a lot in the film. And the motive? Money! If you want to know something more about drug cartels, Cocaine Cowboys is the right movie for you.