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Third World Cop

  • 1999
  • R
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
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Third World Cop (1999)
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A police officer returns to his neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica to find himself in conflict with his childhood friend who is now the right-hand-man of the local gang-lord in a gun-running ... Read allA police officer returns to his neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica to find himself in conflict with his childhood friend who is now the right-hand-man of the local gang-lord in a gun-running racket. Jamaica's highest-grossing film to date.A police officer returns to his neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica to find himself in conflict with his childhood friend who is now the right-hand-man of the local gang-lord in a gun-running racket. Jamaica's highest-grossing film to date.

  • Director
    • Chris Browne
  • Writers
    • Suzanne Fenn
    • Chris Browne
    • Chris Salewicz
  • Stars
    • Paul Campbell
    • Mark Danvers
    • Carl Bradshaw
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    523
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Chris Browne
    • Writers
      • Suzanne Fenn
      • Chris Browne
      • Chris Salewicz
    • Stars
      • Paul Campbell
      • Mark Danvers
      • Carl Bradshaw
    • 10User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
    • 28Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Paul Campbell
    Paul Campbell
    • Capone
    Mark Danvers
    • Ratty
    Carl Bradshaw
    • One Hand
    Winston 'Bello' Bell
    • Floyd
    • (as Winston Bell)
    Audrey Reid
    • Rita
    Lenford Salmon
    • Not Nice
    Ninja Man
    • Deportee
    • (as Desmond 'Ninja Man' Ballentine)
    Elephant Man
    • Tek-9
    • (as O'Neil 'Elephant Man' Bryan)
    Andrew 'Nittie Kutchie' Reid
    • Crime
    Devon 'Angel Doolas' Douglas
    • Razor
    Winsome Wilson
    • Carla
    Ronald 'Too Small' Small
    • Bodyguard
    John Jones
    • Superintendent Lewis
    Kathy Owen
    Kathy Owen
    • TV Announcer
    Natalie Thompson
    Natalie Thompson
    • Port Antonio Superintendent
    Lillian Foster
    • Mama
    Clive Anderson
    • Jacko
    Lloyd Reckord
    Lloyd Reckord
    • Reverend
    • Director
      • Chris Browne
    • Writers
      • Suzanne Fenn
      • Chris Browne
      • Chris Salewicz
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    User reviews10

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    10tarikallicock

    GREAT MOVIE

    Loved the plot and acting in this movie. Even though it's low budget everyone made it work and played their part.
    10nmack_23

    Ali G is an excellent script writer.

    In his first full length movie Ali G has done wonderfully well. He has managed to transpose his everyday life from back home in Staines to the ghetto of Jamaca man.

    The acting is first class. Capone is all class he reminds me of a young Clint Eastwood in this flick. Let me tell you his career is going to skyrocket (remember you heard it first here!).

    The plot is intriguing and complicated -to complicated to describe here, but let me just say there is a lot of shooting!

    I reccomend anybody who enjoyed this film should see "Pay It Forward" or "The Importance of being Ernest".

    this is nick. signing off. untill next time. stay cool you batty boys.
    9Paul M

    Interesting Action Story...

    It's a unique movie. Two best friends find themselves on opposites sides of the law. The basic story and structure is great, where it falters is the dialogue. It isn't that I couldn't understand it. It just had such awful lines like, "I'm sending you home guilty as charged" or "Not Nice, pay the price." The crew filmed this movie in Digital Video to save on the budget but that doesn't ever take away from the movie. A worthy rental or addition to your library.
    6Fat Dragon

    Exotic, but...

    While it was fascinating to watch a Jamaican movie for the first time, I must say that there's a lot that could've been better in Third World Cop. Most importantly the acting. While Paul Campbell does a fairly good job, virtually all the rest of the cast is quite amateurish, and I'm not just saying that because I lost about 1/4 of the dialogue because of the Jamaican English... Also, the camera and post-production work is below Hollywood/Western standards. The small budget (or at least I assume this movie has a small budget) and apparent inexperience of much of the behind-camera crew unfortunately shines through quite often. The script is not bad, but we've seen this before. We haven't seen this in a Jamaican setting before, however, which is perhaps the movie's greatest selling point.

    To sum up this is not too great a movie per se and you sometimes get the feeling that you're watching some cheap action TV show, but the Jamaican setting and all that implies (when was the last time you heard anything like "we run things, things don't run we" in an American movie soundtrack? :o) ) is somewhat refreshing, which is essentially what makes the movie worth watching.
    9appleton-75412

    Interesting

    This was a good movie, Story line put together well. Paul Campbell was amazing, I just felt something was missing. Good movie overall and great to watch.

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    • Trivia
      At the time, the biggest grossing film in Jamaica ever.
    • Quotes

      Gun runner #3: Bambaclaat, Babylon!

    • Connections
      Featured in P.I.S. - Politiets indsatsstyrke: Bjarnes store dag (2001)
    • Soundtracks
      Zen Concrete
      Written by Lowell 'Sly' Dunbar (as L. Dunbar), Robbie Shakespeare (as R. Shakespeare),

      L. Willis

      Performed by Sly & Robbie

      Courtesy of Palm Pictures, LLC

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    • Release date
      • April 14, 2000 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Jamaica
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Kingston, Jamaica
    • Production companies
      • Hawk's Nest Productions
      • Palm Pictures
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $40,717
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $15,465
      • Apr 16, 2000
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 38m(98 min)
    • Color
      • Color

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