After that, he takes up a boring life of near poverty as a teacher with Ilze(Elsa Pataky). At Oxford University, he turns on, tunes in, and almost drops out before being given a second chance. Howard Marks was an extraordinary man and his life makes for an extraordinary story.Īs Howard Marks(Rhys Ifans) tells his rapt audience, his high intelligence allowed him to not only escape regular school beatings and rugby but also his depressed Welsh village. I loved the style, loved the dialogue, loved the cast, and loved the source material. If you're at all interested in drug smuggling or maybe just the man himself, give this film a look. So luckily I watched this before because based on those opinions, I wouldn't have cared for it nearly as much. I will now, but as of seeing the movie, I haven't. Nice.Ī lot of the criticism for the film seems to be from those who have read the book and I can't really deny that the film is a bad adaption because I haven't read the book. Nice, is based on one of Marks' aliases and I would be led to believe it is why there's a popular and powerful strain of marijuana called just that, Mr. Marks takes over and the business flourishes. So when that guy who introduced him to the magical plant gets busted, he turns the business over to Marks.

After graduating, he takes a teaching position that isn't getting him much money. Marks learned about marijuana from a guy while attending and graduating from Oxford. It's fun to watch, it's insightful(probably not as much as the book I would imagine), but more than anything I loved Rhys Ifans and Chloe Savigny. On a subjective level though, I really loved it. There's a few annoyances throughout and from what I've read, it isn't nearly as good as the book. Nice is a movie I thoroughly enjoyed, and more than anything, it really made me want to read Howard Marks' book. And I have to say, I'm ashamed, I tried to smoke it all. Howard Marks: A dealer is really just someone who buys more dope than he can smoke.

Mr. Nice by Howard Marks