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The Legend of Cocaine Island

2018

Theo Love

Documentary, Bo Butterworth, Danny Pardo. Self: Rodney Hyden

5.6

314

Documentary A desperate man goes on a buried treasure hunt for $2 million worth of cocaine.

	Author	Review
United States	Elisabeth Vincentelli The New York Times	"Love is not judgmental about Hyden, and lets him be his sunny, deluded self - down to a willful obliviousness about the realities of drug trafficking and use."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[It] has a few twists and turns up its sleeve that I certainly didn’t see coming (...) [But] all of these tools are merely ways to disguise that there’s not quite a movie’s worth of story to tell here (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"The film introduces elements of an iconic post-recession American story (...) but that story gets muddled by an array of distracting or, at best, divisive editing choices.(…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jordan Hoffman TV Guide	"[It] isn't really all that riveting as a tale of true crime. But it works quite well as a breezy peek at mostly harmless dumbbell characters"	NEU
United States	Andrew Crump The Playlist	A fun look at a wannabe cocaine dealer with a heart of gold (...) We should be pleased for the chance to explore our morality through Love’s complicated, layered lens"	POS
United States	Judy Berman Time	"The results are certainly entertaining. But there’s an undeniable mean-spiritedness to the movie, too. Apparently unsatisfied with the dark comedy baked into the men’s tale, the director openly mocks Rodney’s ignorance."	NEU

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