White Powder

Not great. Looks good in parts, but some of the camerawork is dreadful. Some of the acting is OK, but there are too many characters to really be able to follow what's going on and the script doesn't really hang together. Probably best avoided.

I was so surprised by one of the reviews here that I simply had to watch this nice little movie - actually one of the most popular arthouse films on Amazon UK - one more time! One of the claims made by seamashoea is simply untrue: the lavatory we see in the first moments of the film does contain a bath. Secondly, why this obsession of the reviewer with towels? This is simply hilarious! My conclusion is that seamashoea has a hidden agenda (jealousy? a personal grudge?)

Seriously though, the acting is laughable. It's so poor it's a discrace to all actors to even call it acting. The thing that is really funny though is the actors go from trying to put on a Jamaican accent, to a cockney accent to a posh accent all in 1 sentence without even realising. I sat here in disbelief at seeing probably the worst acting I've ever seen in 40 years before turning it off and coming here to read how it was possible that a film like this could be rating at 7 stars. Avoid like the plague

This wasn't released, it got out by accident. Written by a kindergarten class, acted by martinettes, director must have been somewhere else. Opening scenes, woman climbs stairs, enters small lavatory, no shower in sight - comes out wearing pulled up towel. Next scene man and woman talking, different woman, but also wearing towel? Special offer on towels that day Newsman makes libellous statements to policeman. Went downhill after that. I did well, survived 2 minutes of it. Dreadful, rubbish.

If you are looking for a film which not only entertains, but can also make you think, "White Powder" is for you! On the surface, it is just another story about drugs and gangsters; on a deeper level, one can see it as a film about the sheer unpredictability of life, the complexity of human emotions and the importance of not jumping to assumptions. At the same time, there are moments of brilliant, grotesque (and sometimes very dark) humour scattered throughout this movie...

I loved the subplot where one of the main characters is torn between his possessive girlfriend and another girl. I also loved the fact that none of the gangsters in the movie is a simplistic bad guy. However, the film does have some shortcomings - the female characters could have been more developed and more complex and I found the ending somewhat unconvincing.

There's some brilliant acting: Jason Deer is truly menacing and very believable in the role of one of the gangsters, Judson Vaughn is brilliant as a good-natured, but cunning petty drug dealer, George McCluskey is quite impressive as a paranoid gang boss, and Nicole McBride gives her all and more as a possessive, nagging girlfriend. I have also to mention the hilarious cameos by the two co-directors, Dziko Kazembe and Marek Dabrowski, and by Sarah Fronckevic...

Last but not least, the soundtrack by Rémi Brossier is splendid and perfectly fits the film!