Netflix’s new drama Cocaine air: Smugglers at 30,000 ft. is a true story that feels like it has been torn from the fictitious narcotics Anesthetic – And that’s something the filmmakers themselves are the first to admit.
Speaking of the four-man arrest that is in the center of the story, director Olivier Bouchara told the variety that “it’s like a spinoff of Anesthetic Except for none of the four fits the profile. Two pilots, former Air Force Heroes, family men. And two passengers without criminal items, not even to steal potatoes “.
The story begins on March 19, 2013 when a Falcon 50 business jet is getting ready to start in the Dominican Republic. But before it can fly the anti-Drug troop that swings in because there are 26 suitcases full of dope on board.
Next to two passengers, the pilots are arrested. They protest their innocence and ignorance of their cocaine shipping – “We are pilots, not luggage managers” – but the defendants are thrown into prison.
Cocaine air: Smugglers at 30,000 ft. Tells the story of how they ended up there and what happened then, and it has risen to second place on Netflix’s Global Top 10 for non-English content, which did it during being one of the best Netflix shows.
What do people say about cocaine air: smugglers at 30,000 ft.?
As with many Netflix documentaries, there is an argument that the material has been stretched longer than it should be to tell the story over a long period of time; Decider certainly felt that on three 45-minute episodes: “It mainly extends its material.” But the mystery of the heart of the story – were the men guilty as accused, or was it a setup? – Is exciting, so much that the case was a media sensation in France with alleged connections to the rich, famous and powerful in this country.
Over on R/Netflix, top comments LKS983 “thoroughly it – and even laughed loudly a few times on some of the ‘pork’ that were told!”. It is “one of these stories that becomes the skirts every episode”, agreed on the excellent named elegant-Leg540, which “began to believe that the pilots were naive innocent, did not end so sure.”
Telerabbit9000 couldn’t believe the pilots didn’t know what was in their cargo. “When they say ‘I didn’t care what the cargo was, as long as I was paid’ they had to get paid so much that they would have known what the cargo was (and if they didn’t pay 1 million, they are even bigger fools and take such a risk for no money.)” “
And the also excellent named 60 -Percentsexpanther loved it too, and was equally questionable about the pilots’ evidence. “Imagine putting 34 days worth of the whole London city in a single plane and then claiming that you thought it was all bikinis, knickers, flip flops and sunglasses, and you never knew.”
Cocaine air: Smugglers at 30,000 ft. Streaming now on Netflix.
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