Mr. Nice
Oxford University student Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans) runs one of the biggest global cannabis smuggling operations from the late 1960s to the early 1980s with alleged connections to MI6, the IRA and the Mafia.
1981, Newry, Northern Ireland, UK
7 December 1982, London, England, UK
1 October 1985, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
1933, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
18 November 1974, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
1 July 1956, London, England, UK
30 September 1965, London, England, UK
28 August 1985, New York City, New York, USA
15 May 1963, England, UK
12 March 1960, London, England, UK
3 March 1928, Maesteg, Wales, UK
11 September 1975, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
1971, London, England, UK
14 March 1975, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
1973, Bury, Lancashire, England, UK
September 07, 2011
Ultimately, Mr. Nice doesn't transcend its genre, but the title character is a bright addition to the cinematic rogues' gallery of charmers for whom the real high isn't the drugs or the cash, but the con.
September 09, 2011
The writer-director tells the story with verve and small-budget ingenuity.
June 15, 2011
Writer-director Bernard Rose lets the picture bop along a little too loosely, but the vibes are good.
July 14, 2011
Marks may be a gas as a storyteller, but there's a long way between a string of anecdotes and an actual narrative film. And "Mr. Nice," for all its energy, doesn't make the transition.
September 29, 2011
I'd recommend the similar "Blow" first, and I didn't even like that movie much.
September 11, 2011
Though the film takes a while to cast its spell, writer-director-cinematographer Bernard Rose's close observation of Marks and those around him becomes increasingly involving and allows Rose to comment on the widespread failure of the war on drugs.
September 08, 2011
Ifans looks 20 years too old for the part, and the problem with the movie is it seems so desperate to be made that it barely cares that he spends half of his time miscast.
September 12, 2011
Overly relying on narration, Mr. Nice tells much more than it shows.
June 10, 2011
what Mr. Nice offers is a stylish and fascinating biography that, while perhaps playing loose with the facts, knows that it's far more entertaining to watch the highs than the lows.
June 30, 2011
Effortlessly captures the looks, attitudes and the various mentalities of the period from the late 1960s and early 1970s, through the transition from the hippie era into the Studio 54 days, followed by the Just-Say-No retrenchment of the 1980s.
July 01, 2011
We're always ready to accept Ifans as a hedonistic daredevil.
July 29, 2011
[Ifans] captures the character's charisma and cool, and it's fun to ride shotgun with him. But the script isn't pointed enough to drill beneath the surface.
