Didn't have too high of expectations going in to this one, but seeing Ron Pearlman from SOA got me in my seat. A true story about a kid from Idaho who turns his nothing life into something we all wanted at one time or another growing up, Money & Power. Nate Norman narrates us through his rise and fall as the leader of Idaho's most unassuming team of drug mules.
If I didn't know going in that it was a true story, I would have in no way believed it. From the moment Nate and his best friend Topher hatch their plan, I was hooked. You get a first hand look at how money, power and drugs turn best friends into adversaries who eventually end up only looking out for #1, selling anyone and everyone out to be able to stay out of prison blues.
It's a pretty interesting window to be able to look through, watching their "crack team" of mules go from small time to big time overnight. Eventually doing the exact opposite of what John C. McGinley and his sage Canadian weed grower wisdom advised them against before their first trip across the border. The bragging to friends, throwing raging parties and buying all the toys money can buy, it was that excess and greed that eventually end it all. While it was never my life, I can't lie, the first three-quarters of the movie looked like a pretty fun ride. Basically it's the Wolf of Wall Street for stoners, trading Wall Street for Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and stocks for weed.
If I didn't know going in that it was a true story, I would have in no way believed it. From the moment Nate and his best friend Topher hatch their plan, I was hooked. You get a first hand look at how money, power and drugs turn best friends into adversaries who eventually end up only looking out for #1, selling anyone and everyone out to be able to stay out of prison blues.
It's a pretty interesting window to be able to look through, watching their "crack team" of mules go from small time to big time overnight. Eventually doing the exact opposite of what John C. McGinley and his sage Canadian weed grower wisdom advised them against before their first trip across the border. The bragging to friends, throwing raging parties and buying all the toys money can buy, it was that excess and greed that eventually end it all. While it was never my life, I can't lie, the first three-quarters of the movie looked like a pretty fun ride. Basically it's the Wolf of Wall Street for stoners, trading Wall Street for Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and stocks for weed.