Video Review

Video Review: 'Third World Cop' (2012)

EW's GRADE
C

Details Movie Rated: R; Genre: Mystery and Thriller; With: Paul Campbell and Mark Danvers; Distributor: Palm Pictures

How's this for moral ambiguity? The supercop at the center of the gangsta shoot-em-up Third World Cop is named Capone. And guess what? He plays by his own rules. Those are just a couple of the clichés besetting Campbell (Dancehall Queen), whose laconic charisma endeavors to raise this, the highest-grossing homegrown film to come out of Jamaica, above mediocrity. Alas, that triteness — and a video-to-film transfer that just screams COPS Goes to Kingston — carry the day, making this just, well, irie. C

Originally posted Sep 15, 2000 Published in issue #559 Sep 15, 2000 Order article reprints
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