Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty

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Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty

2014

1h 30m

Documentary

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A profile of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, who rose from obscurity to become one of Mexico's most notorious and powerful drug lords. The man behind the myth and the ways in which his international drug cartel impacts U.S. citizens.

Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

11/13/2014

Driven by mostly Spanish-language folk music, the movie provides a potent if piecemeal counterbalance to the sensationalism of "Breaking Bad."

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Scott Tobias

The Dissolve

11/12/2014

2/5

Save for the vague aura of danger surrounding Guzmn, Drug Lord has trouble forming a coherent point of view.

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Ernest Hardy

Village Voice

11/11/2014

Compelling but ultimately unfulfilling ...

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

12/31/2014

... turns out to be uneven and incomplete (with some graphic violence to illustrate its points), but compelling as it tries to separate fact from rumor amid a large-scale manhunt.

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Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

11/14/2014

Reminiscent of Michael Moore's search for Roger Smith, arguably a more toxic figure than Shorty Guzman

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Kevin Jagernauth

The Playlist

11/14/2014

C-

"Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty" squanders an opportunity due to the common problem of contemporary documentaries, where the directors get so far in the way of their own story, that any context or objectivity is lost.

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02/15/2016

An interesting look at a few filmmakers attempt to find and i,nterview El Chapo. Along the way, they meet all kinds of characters from outsiders to some of the people in his cartel. It gives a brief, if somewhat lacking, story of what lacking story of who El Chapo is. Some of the scenes of the cartel violence is quite raw and gritty so some people might have a hard time with those scenes. Overall, it's a pretty interesting, but not as in depth as I hoped

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08/01/2015

El Chapo documentary. Interesting subject matter but rather short on in-depth research or Chapo's background, rise to power, etc.

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11/27/2014

Insightful to an extent, it's just a shame the authorities found the drug baron before the film makers as maybe it could have got very interesting if he had talked to them.

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Synopsis

A profile of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, who rose from obscurity to become one of Mexico's most notorious and powerful drug lords. The man behind the myth and the ways in which his international drug cartel impacts U.S. citizens.

Director: Angus MacQueen
Producer: Simon Chinn, Andrew Mackenzie
Screenwriter: Angus MacQueen
Distributor: Submarine Deluxe
Production Co: Twofour Productions, Ronachan Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 14, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 30m

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