2010 · comedy · crime · drama
Mr. Nice
Directed by Bernard Rose2h 1m2010
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Our read: Mr. Nice (2010) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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