It's not receiving the same sort of effusive praise that Traffic did, but most critics are finding much to like about Ted Demme's Blow, starring Johnny Depp. Depp in particular is receiving fine notices for his performance as cocaine kingpin George Jung. Indeed, Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal suggests that Depp's performance may be too good for its own good. "He's the source of the movie's power, but also the emblem of its fundamental problem.," he writes. "With George being played by an actor of such effortless charm, no slime ever seems to adhere to this man of little demonstrable insight or ability." Critics are clearly divided over the character. On the one hand Lou Lumenick in the New York Post writes: "Rarely since the tale of the Corleones has a movie presented such a compelling, sympathetic portrait of a criminal lowlife." On the other hand, Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post comments, "You can't make an epic about a mouse." Likewise Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Time observes, "Johnny Depp is a versatile and reliable actor who almost always chooses interesting projects. The failure is George Jung's. For all the glory of his success and the pathos of his failure, he never became a person interesting enough to make a movie about." And Jay Carr in the Boston Globe remarks that "its hard to develop a rooting interest" in the character. Moreover, he adds, by "waffling on the moral issues, Blow blew its chance to be an epic drug opera." But Chris Vognar in the Dallas Morning News suggests that the movie scores because it doesn't take the usual stand on drugs. "Blow walks a fine line between preaching against and celebrating the rapid rise of powder cocaine in the '70s. That it doesn't give in to either impulse goes a long way toward the film's success."