Cocaine Cowboys will hit theaters in the UK in November. Check out the British GQ review:

If you needed further proof that the documentaries currently coming out of America are better than the films being produced by Hollywood, look no further...

...Until Michael Moore’s Sicko reaches these shores, Cocaine Cowboys is the must-see documentary of the year.

Must-see documentary of the year.

If you needed further proof that the documentaries currently coming out of America are better than the films being produced by Hollywood, look no further. Cocaine Cowboys tells the story of the Miami drug wars in the late Seventies and early Eighties that inspired both Miami Vice and Scarface. In a matter of months, cocaine smugglers and dealers turned a sleepy retirement community into the centre of a $20bn business fed by Colombia’s Medillin cartel. The result of the influx of cocaine was to turn Miami into the most cash-rich city in the world, with banks and car dealerships opening up on every street corner. By the mid Eighties, Miami’s murder rate had tripled. The Cocaine Cowboys story is told primarily by former business partners Jon Pernell Roberts and Mickey Munday. It is the duo’s charisma that really binds the film together. Roberts, particularly, has more charm than Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell put together in the 2006 Miami Vice remake. Using vintage photographs and original news footage alongside interviews with the crooks, judges and cops, this is riveting for almost all of its 118 minute running time. The pace slows somewhat when the film turns its focus to the staggering violence that occurred post-glory years and devotes a little too much time to an interview with a hitman who is a little too proud of his “achievements”. On top of all of this, the film’s soundtrack was scored by none other than Jan Hammer (the man behind the infamous Miami Vice soundtrack) in a real masterstroke by the film-makers. Until Michael Moore’s Sicko reaches these shores, Cocaine Cowboys is the must-see documentary of the year. James Mullinger Directed by Billy Corben Starring Jon Roberts, Mickey Munday, Jorge "Rivi" Ayala Out: 23 November 2007