Wah Do Dem

This mildly appealing mini-budget odyssey follows the (mis)adventures of young holidaying New Yorker Max (musician Sean ‘Bones’ Sullivan). Moving from drunken nights on a cruise bound for Jamaica, through a ‘roots’ travelogue across the island – Max is robbed of everything short of his underpants on Mahogany Beach; watches his cruise ship sail off without him; sees in Obama’s victory in a dancehall in St Catherine; is threatened with a knife outside Kingston – the movie alternates from bad experience to good before attempting a final meeting of the two. The film is mercifully lacking in hyperbole its indie/mumblecore quirks are not excessive, excepting an over-emphatic ‘Apocalypse Now’-style sequence featuring a mystic rasta, played by ‘The Harder They Come’s Carl Bradshaw. The soundtrack features a mix of New York rock bands (MGMT, Yeasayer), Jamaican reggae and dancehall.