This improved quite a lot after I realised subtitles were an option for me on my university's website about 25 minutes in.
Don't worry, I rewound it back to the beginning, because I had no idea what was going on up to that point because of the really thick Jamaican accents, but honestly, if you're going to watch this through..."dubious means" without subtitles, you probably might as well not bother.
Anyway, it's a pretty mixed bag to me, with points where it's really well directed, and alternatively points (well, one point in particular) that honestly reminded me of a Neil Breen film with how amateurish it looked. There's points where the acting is really great, and points where it sucks, sometimes from the same actor (take this with a grain of salt though, I have a hard time judging acting when they're speaking with foreign accents or languages), and the story has it's moments, but all in all it comes off to me as pretty generic.
It kind of puts me in mind of Black Panther, where I can certainly understand why it's loved by black people, because in some ways this was that generation's Black Panther, i.e a film with a cast of almost entirely black people that made some pretty big waves both because and in spite of that, and I get why that makes it a special film. It's just that, like Black Panther, it doesn't do all that much for me, and yeah, that likely is because of me being white, so I can't experience the same happiness at being seen on screen this much, because that's just the norm for me.
It's still a little better than Black Panther if you ask me though, because at least it's not so bloody formulaic, but nevertheless it's a fairly cut and dry crime thriller that just so happens to have a really good soundtrack and be a big turning point for representation, neither of which make it particularly interesting to me personally, but I get why it has its place in cult film history for sure.
I wonder how many people were brought here just by the title though...heh heh, "come".
Don't worry, I rewound it back to the beginning, because I had no idea what was going on up to that point because of the really thick Jamaican accents, but honestly, if you're going to watch this through..."dubious means" without subtitles, you probably might as well not bother.
Anyway, it's a pretty mixed bag to me, with points where it's really well directed, and alternatively points (well, one point in particular) that honestly reminded me of a Neil Breen film with how amateurish it looked. There's points where the acting is really great, and points where it sucks, sometimes from the same actor (take this with a grain of salt though, I have a hard time judging acting when they're speaking with foreign accents or languages), and the story has it's moments, but all in all it comes off to me as pretty generic.
It kind of puts me in mind of Black Panther, where I can certainly understand why it's loved by black people, because in some ways this was that generation's Black Panther, i.e a film with a cast of almost entirely black people that made some pretty big waves both because and in spite of that, and I get why that makes it a special film. It's just that, like Black Panther, it doesn't do all that much for me, and yeah, that likely is because of me being white, so I can't experience the same happiness at being seen on screen this much, because that's just the norm for me.
It's still a little better than Black Panther if you ask me though, because at least it's not so bloody formulaic, but nevertheless it's a fairly cut and dry crime thriller that just so happens to have a really good soundtrack and be a big turning point for representation, neither of which make it particularly interesting to me personally, but I get why it has its place in cult film history for sure.
I wonder how many people were brought here just by the title though...heh heh, "come".