Drug Wars - The Camarena Story

Drug Wars

The movie gave me a real life depiction of what the DEA agent endured before his demise.

dependency

this dvd is based on a true story. lot of young people, men in many examples,think they are drug lords because of 'the money they gain'. it is independent of nationality, in this case, a mexican young man.I think this dvd will be better if artisan home entertainmente and zzy production release it...

Drug Wars - The Camerena Story

Too many scenes were cut out from the original film. The scenes that were cut out greatly dilutes the full impact of this case and the conclusion as it relates to the consequences of those corupt individuals involved in the murder of Kiki Camerena.

Based on a true story - from the producers of The Insider, Ali, and Black Hawk Down

Drug Wars: The Camarena Story was a 1990 TV mini-series based on Elaine Shannon's book 'Desperados' and the Time magazine article of the same name. This is a fact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, While stationed in Guadalajara, Camarena (Bauer) uncovered a...

Review of The Camarena story.

This film demonstrates the dangers faced by law enforcement in confronting major drug kingpins. The associated violence and corruption continues even today.

The DVD edition is terrible

The true Camarena case is a rather interesting story that deserved to be brought to the big screen but it was at least brought to the small screen as a 6 hour TV miniseries spanning 3 days in January 1990. Well I was too young to have seen it then, and I guess I missed out terribly because in...

Not the Whole Story

There is just too much going on in the movie for the producers to have condensed it into the 2 hour 15 min time frame on the DVD. While this is a decent summary of the original series, there isn't enough in here to get the point of the story across. Should have been a double disc. This...

awsome and scary cause it really happened

Drug Wars: The Camarena Story is a great movie, but scary cause it's true and really happened.the story centers around Enrique "kike" Camarena, a DEA agent in Mexico who is kidnapped, tortured, and killed by a mexican drug cartel. what follows is the war on the drugs, the war on corrpution and...

great movie, I wish to order 1 more copy for a friend

Very poor

When I first saw this mini-series I was impressed by it's depth and it's message. A group of policemen fighting against all odds, corruption and politics. It could even be stereotyped as a plot of good against evil. That was the original series. What they have done on the DVD was to condense...