An intriguing character sidelined - for love story

BENECIO del Toro is rarely a leading man in films, but can always be counted on to be a scene-stealer.

He does that once again, playing the larger-than-life drug lord Pablo Escobar in writer-director Andrea Di Stefano's Paradise Lost.

Loosely based on actual events around the exploits of the Colombian cocaine baron, the film would have worked better solely as a biopic about him rather than have it watered down to the love story between the movie's two other main characters, young Canadian surfer N…