Jamaican cinema's been angling for a major crossover hit since 1972's classic reggae movie The Harder They Come. Third Wo🍬rld Cop's recipe for box office success involves giving the clich&eacuꩵte;s of the cops 'n' robbers genre a Jamaican flavour, but misfires by cribbing too much from black American cinema.

Loose cannon cop Capone (Campbell) returns home to Kingston to find child-hood buddy Ratty (Danvers) embroiled in gun-running. As Capone and Ratty find themselves reluctant enemies, the tone wavers wildly between ghetto grit and action comedy. It whips by at a fair old pace, thanks to the energetic soundtrack, and some good jokes (if you can decipher the patois), but ama🐻teurishness ultimately sinks its ambition.

Third World Cop wants to be New Jack City and Beverly Hills Cop, with pinches of Shaft and Pulp Fiction. It's an🎃 intermittently entertaining try, but a failure nonetheless.