Rude Boy (2003)

Witness the biggest trade connect between the u.S. & jamaica when a jamaican becomes a mule for the deadliest don on american soil. Julius st. John has big dreams of becoming the biggest reggae dj in the u.S. But when his status is jeopardized he makes a deal with the devil - & murder is the only option. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/22/2005 Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R Product Description

A Very Funny and Watchable Movie

If you're a "Jamerican" living in Los Angeles, who feels strange about American "hip-hop" culture, you will find this film both amusing and entertaining. "Rude Boy" was made in the tradition of previous Jamaican crime dramas, such as "The Harder They Come," but this film takes itself a lot less seriously. The film is interpolated with comedic moments, such as the tough talk delivered by the overweight, Suge Knight-inspired crime kingpin "Biggs," but the film also stays true to the Jamaican crime-movie premise that crime is necessary when you're oppressed -- just as long as the crime victims deserve to be victims.
If you think favorably toward hip hop culture, or if you're expecting Rude Boy to be "Citizen Kane," then you probably won't like the film. But if you're looking for something light-hearted, entertaining, humorous and somewhat uplifting, this will be one of your favorite Jamaican crime movies. May 10, 2008

IF IT WASN'T 4 BEENIE MAN & MICH "THE BEAR" TALLIFERRO I WOULD'VE GAVE IT 1 STAR! THIS IS LIKE KLASH!

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%R.I.P MICHAEL "THE BEAR" TALIFFERO%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>>>>>>I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE 2 START! *I WILL ALWAYS BIG-UP JAMAICA & ANY TALENT THAT IT PRODUCES BUT JAMAICA HAS MANY GREAT FILMS!(& THIS ISN'T 1 OF THEM)... I GAVE IT A 3 NOT BECAUSE I LIKE IT -JUST BECAUSE OF BEENIE MAN & MICH "THE BEAR" TALIFERRO (IN FACT THEY'RE THE REASON I GOT IT)! MARK DANVERS WHO PLAYS JULIUS ST.JOHN HAS DONE MUCH BETTER ACTING IN "DANCEHALL QUEEN" AS JR.! I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE DIRECTOR DESMOND GUMBS BUT I'M NOT SURE WHERE HE WAS TAKING THIS FILM? *HE THREW IN GOOD CAMEOS SUCH AS: THE GREAT JIMMY CLIFF & THE TAXI DRIVER JAMAICAN COMEDIAN "OLIVER", BUT THIS IS A FLICK THAT'S GONNA @ THE BOTTOM OF MY COLLECTION 4SURE W/ KLASH!!!!
***I ALWAYS GET A KICK OUT OF HEARING "THE PATOIS", I JUST LOVED WHAT BEENIE/CROWN DON SAID 2 GARGON/NINJA MAN AFTER THEIR DISPUTE!!!!(I LUV BEENIE HE LOOKS LIKE MY FATHER)... I LUV THAT SONG THAT JULIUS WAS RAPPIN EARLY IN THE MOVIE, I BET IF IT THIS HAS A SOUNDTRACK IT WILL BE WICKED!!!! * IF YOU WANT 2 SEE REALLY GREAT "JAMAICAN MOVIES" THEN I WOULD SUGGEST: SHOTTAS, DANCEHALL QUEEN, 3RD WORLD COP, THE HARDER THEY COME THE HARDER THEY FALL, MARKED 4 DEATH!!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>DA TRUTH<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< December 13, 2006

If i could i would give it 1/2 stars

This movie is the worst Jamaican movie ever. It makes Top Shottas look like Scarface. The "story", "acting" an "action scenes" were all laughable. If your a real fan of Jamaican films save your money or invest it in "Smile Orange", "The Harder They Come", "Third World Cop" or "Dancehall Queen" or even "Top Shotta". December 14, 2005

I hope future anthropologists don't judge us for this

This film would reflect poorly on Jamaican cinema, but it was mostly filmed in the United States so West Indians can sleep easy knowing it's not their fault. This is a remarkably bad movie in concept and execution from all aspects save the soundtrack.

The film follows the story of Julius (Mark Danvers) an aspiring musician and mass murderer. Emigrating to the United States as a mule for a Suge Knightesque fellow, he immediately is frustrated by an employer who demands that he actually work in order to receive remuneration. Faced with so tyrannical a demand, he is torn with the dilemma of returning to his rude ways or sticking it out legit to save money for studio time. The devil on one shoulder snuffs the angel on the other. The poor acting having started from the get go, the film then begins wandering aimlessly from drug deal to drug deal and shooting to shooting all the while trying to pawn off on the audience bad acting and poor character development. Luckily, the technical aspects of the film are terrible as well so as to make for almost perfect symmetry across the quality board. Only Beenie Man's competence as an actor keeps the film from achieving anti-perfection, well, that and a halfway decent soundtrack.

As the film drags on one realizes that journeyman writers Bentley Kyle and Trenton Gumbs refuse to take advantage of many opportunities to make the film stop. Instead, they continue on piling superfluity at every chance to a film already much too long at the first natural conclusion point. The script lacks throughout in every way imaginable. The audience should heed the warning from Ninja Man's first appearance that further viewing will be a testing ordeal. He's a legendary freestyler but a terrible actor. There are perhaps two or three funny lines in the film but the real joke is on me as I didn't turn it off thinking it might get better. July 19, 2004

HAS SOME DECENT ACTING, BUT...

A REGGAE MUSICIAN BEGINS TO DEAL DRUGS FOR A DRUG KINGPIN SO HE COULD GET THE MONEY FOR STUDIO TIME. HAS A DECENT PLOT, BUT MOST OF THE ACTING ISN'T GOOD, AND MOST OF THE CHARACTERS WERE JUST CLICHED CHARCTERS THAT YOU'D USUALLY SEE A JAMAICAN ACTOR PLAY. I DO AGREE THAT THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF THINGS TO LAUGH AT WHEN WATCHING THIS MOVIE. NOT THE WORST OF ITS KIND, BUT, I DON'T THINK ITS REALLY WORTH BUYING. June 9, 2004

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