#151 is an Oscar Award winning film by Steven Soderbergh with three entangled stories about the drug war in America and Mexico. Steven does an excellent job of filming each story in it's own way - I think even with different film stock - using colors to divide the stories that revolve around two competing drug cartels trying to get their product to the US
It's a great story, and I remember seeing it 20 years ago before I really knew what cinema was doing or how it worked - (I can't remember if it was in the theater or not) - Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones do a great job in their stories, and Benicio del Toro didn't even speak Spanish when he got the role that won him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
There's a lesson here, but there's also a great story and it's one that I imagine looks phenomenal on the Blu-Ray - I was unable to get official disks but it looks like there's 25 deleted scenes, and a lot of great backstory about how things were filmed. Glad to see it's still in print even if it's not on the Channel right now.
It's a nice break from the real art-house stuff occasionally to get one of the more contemporary US films in here, so it washed down easy and was an enjoyable re-watch 22 years later.
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