Drug Lords (2018) User Reviews

Scariest Grandma ever, is a Sheila

[gibbs-18172 · 8/10 · 26 February 2020]

Interesting documenty to view if you have watched narcos, or if you have watched this watch narcos.

Sad thing no Angel Félix who within 3 series you thought Netflix would have hit upon by now if only to push Narcos Mexico

Anyway from The Gentleman of to the thugish queen of crack, Pablo to El Chapo this is informed if sometimes over inflated egos who speak for themselves.

Worth a watch

Watchable

[bazookamouth-221-898097 · 6/10 · 13 May 2021]

As usual with this kind of series some of the episodes are more interesting than others. The best episodes were the Colombian based ones, El Chapo from Mexico and the ones that put me to sleep were the Frank. Lucas and Christopher Coke episodes. Still this is a decent series. Worth watching.

It could have been better but it can be entertaining

[hugoimdb · 7/10 · 14 December 2019]

The characters portrayed probably had a life full of interesting details, but that seems to be wasted and this series rarely gets you enthusiastic. It's not that those guys should be glamorized or that the series should take a sensationalist approach, but some greater detail would do well. Episodes are long but lack information density. Those simulation scenes could have been more well performed, especially with better actors. Or they could just have not been made at all, or even be replaced by cartoon. It's interesting - even indispensable - to interview those who were directly involved in the events portrayed (the cops and the gangsters), but it would be very nice to also hear some of the people who were indirectly affected by their actions and also some experts. This series can be entertaining, but it leaves you with the feeling that something much better could have been done with its subject matter.

Another Late Adopter on the Escobar Train

[tboneincali · 3/10 · 11 July 2018]

Just what we need, another docudrama about the world's Drug Lords. Still, I thought that perhaps with the overwhelmingly large recent canon of the Medellin Cartel syndicate contributions like: Alias J.J., Narco's, El Chapo, Escobar, and Loving Pablo, a series to hit on the other key players may be striking while the iron is hot; but to my dismay, it's just a tired underwhelming attempt to copy what's already been done time and again. My advice is to read the book written by hitman Jairo Velásquez as well as Chasing Pablo by Marquez and don't waste your time on this drivel.

A lot of bad information, and IMPORTANT things left out..

[beyondgodl · 5/10 · 31 March 2021]

In the episode about El Chapo, they never ONCE mentioned that the DEA (and pretty sure they never mentioned the Mexican either) worked with him, and his Sinaloa cartel. They also tried really hard to potray the DEA as the good guys, who wanted nothing but to stop the terrible drug lord El Chapo, which is completely bull, considering they were working together for years.

In the episode about the Cali cartel, the series claimed it's an operation started by the cartel that led to Pablo Escobar's death, and this is 1000% false. It was a police operation -- through and through -- and the Cali cartel had NOTHING to do with it.

Overall, it's a decent watch, but due to the misinformation, I cannot recommend it.

WHAT?...WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?

[Djpolofish · 4/10 · 28 May 2020]

Might have some good info but whatever this show is trying to convey is lost through the very distracting and unending Inception music... every word that is uttered is met with annoying overdramatic loud music

more biased pro US pro DEA misinformation

[loozzotys · 1/10 · 1 January 2022]

Doesn't show truth at all.

DEA supported cartels in Mexico and Columbia then blame the cartels for the huge addiction in US. The documentary is too biased and barely resembles truth or facts.

Discrepancy

[conroymalcolm · 25 March 2020]

Very interesting docu series but there is a discrepancy between the Cali Cartels and Pablo Escobar episodes. In the Cali Cartel episode, it was documented that it was an operation by Cali Cartels that lead to Escobar's demise but when you watch the Escobar episode there were no mention of the Cali Cartels throughout the whole documentary. That was just very confusing or maybe I was missing something.