Cinema
Third World Cop
Chris Browne · 1999
Synopsis
Transferred to Kingston, to the neighbourhood of his childhood, Capone, a policeman with brutal methods, uncovers an arms trafficking ring that uses barrels addressed to churches. In the ghettos he finds his childhood friends again, among them Ratty, whom he calls his little brother and who works for a one-handed gang boss, Wonie. Capone has to choose between the law and loyalty to his friend.
Context
The film was produced by Carolyn Pfeiffer for Palm Pictures and Island Jamaica Films, Chris Blackwell's companies, and shot in twenty-one days. Browne rewrote the script, replacing a counterfeiting story with arms trafficking, and met police officers to prepare it. The music, produced by Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, blends reggae and dancehall. Released in Jamaica in 1999, the film came out in the United States in 2000.
Who it is for
To see the Kingston of the ghettos at the end of the nineties, in a big-screen Jamaican crime thriller.
Prizes and reception
With more than twenty-one million Jamaican dollars in takings, it broke the island's records, among them that of Dancehall Queen.