Third World Cop

[Drunk Monk]

This was Jamaica's biggest box office hit. Now I've enjoyed the vintage JA cinema, like Harder They Come, Countryman, and Rockers, so I was really looking forward to this. It was filmed on video, which added to it's cheesiness, but I'm ok with cheese, as you know. It had a pretty thumping dancehall soundtrack, and captured Trenchtown and the patois well (sometimes subtitles were required). The leads were captivating, charismatic in a dancehall way. The downside was that the story was stupid. A cop returns to his old hood and has to bust his childhood friends for gun running. That's it. No twists. Not much tension. It openned with a sex scene to gunfight that made no sense at all. There was some inkling of character development, but it never goes anywhere. The villain had a metal claw hand. There was some odd visual jokes, like the villain auditioning pole dancers and the last one being this grossly obese woman. Mediocre gun fights.

Overall, it was a great disappointment.

[King Bob]

about the metal claw hand! Did they at least get some good use out of it?

[Drunk Monk]

It was a really fake-looking pincer claw, like a robot arm of mars rover. The villain only used it to hold phatties. He gets busted in one scene with a huge phatty in his claw. That's about the only time it comes into play at all. A shame really. If you're going to go to the trouble of having a hook-hand villain, he should apply it in some dastardly way....

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Best Claw hand villain ever, complete with vibrator attachment.

[King Bob]

I also liked the flaming hand when they returned to Kansas.

Do we need a "best villian prosthesis" thread?