Netflix’s new drama Cocaine air: smugglers at 30,000 feet. It is a real story that feels as if it had been torn from the fictional drug drama Narcos – And that is something that the filmmakers themselves are the first to admit.
Speaking of the arrest of four men in the center of history, director Olivier Bouchara told Variety that “it’s like a spin-off of Narcosexcept that none of the four conforms to the profile. Two pilots, former heroes of the Air Force, Family Men. And two passengers without a criminal record, not even to steal potatoes. “
The story begins on March 19, 2013, since a Falcon 50 business jet prepares for takeoff in the Dominican Republic. But before the anti -drug squad can fly, because there are 26 suitcases full of drugs on board.
Together with two passengers, the pilots are arrested. They protest their innocence and ignorance of their cocaine load, “we are pilots, not luggage, but they and the accused passengers are thrown into jail.
Cocaine air: smugglers at 30,000 feet. It tells the story of how they ended there and what happened next, and has shot second in the Netflix Global Top 10 Top 10 for non -English content, which starts it to be one of Netflix’s best programs.
What do people say about cocaine air: smugglers at 30,000 feet?
As with many Netflix documentaries, there is an argument that the material has stretched more time than it should be to tell the story for a period too long; Decider definitely felt that in three episodes of 45 minutes: “Its material is extended mainly.” But the mystery in the heart of history: were the guilty men as loaded or was it a configuration? – It is intriguing, so much that the case was a sensation of media in France with alleged connections with the rich, famous and powerful in that country.
In R/Netflix, the best commentator LKS983 “enjoyed it a lot, and even laughed out loud several times in some of the ‘pors’ that are counted!”. It is “one of those stories that becomes crazier in each episode,” agreed that the excellently called Elegant-Leg540, who “began thinking that the pilots were innocent naive and then ended up so safe.”
Terabbit9000 could not believe that the pilots did not know what was in their load. “When they say ‘I didn’t care what the load was, while they paid me’, they had to receive a payment so much that they would have known what the load was (and if they were paid 1 million, they are even greater fools, running that risk without money).”
And he also loved the excellently called 60 percentage of 60 percentage, and was equally doubtful about the evidence of the pilots. “Imagine putting a 34 -day blow to the entire city of London in a single plane and then affirming that he thought everything was bikinis, panties, flip flops and sunglasses and never knew.”
Cocaine air: smugglers at 30,000 feet. He is now transmitting in Netflix.
