Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Joaquin Guzman Loera aka El Chapo aka Shorty is one of the most infamous drug-lords of all time, he was the first person to be labelled PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE by the US government due to his billion dollar drug-business and ruthless antics to uphold his rep.And this documentary follows a team of journalists in the search for a meeting with the man and interviews many of Joaquin colleagues (and even family members) on their quest.And while many of the people that know El Chapo tells stories of his goodness and humble nature, it's obvious that they are holding a lot back very possibly due to fear of repercussions, so one has to read between the lines a little bit.Repercussions from law-men seem less of a worry since the drug-smugglers very gladly seem to share their very best drug-smuggling tips.Well worth seeing.

Okay with such a title of a documentary, there are tons of puns galore you can come up with on this one, but the subject matter is no laughing matter.We have two journalists/documentary makers out to try to find the elusive Mexican drug lord El Chapo ('Shorty') who is currently the world's most notorious drugs crime lord. Going and escaping from wherever they can, our leads interview just anyone who is brave enough to talk. Quite often you will feel very disturbed by some of the replies from a selection of those interviewed.This is a graphic and honest documentary, and the question is just what will he be like when or if the documentary do find him? That's the mystery.It's nothing special in it making, and really we are watching our leads on a wild goose chase.It's interesting and unsettling, worth a viewing but you'll get little out of it.

A compelling, quest-based documentary that sees a pair of film-makers (one British, one Peruvian) travel to the USA and Mexico in the hunt for a notorious Mexican drug lord nicknamed 'Shorty'. This has much in common with the kinds of globe-trotting documentaries that Ross Kemp regularly makes for Sky these days, with the unwelcome addition of a number of musical interludes (I could have done without all the music, which is why this gets a lower rating than I'd have liked to give it).The narrative is focused and wide-ranging, exploring all of the different facets of the drug dealer's life and career, and you get a thorough overview of the whole situation. Camera-work and dialogue are fine. The film-makers manage to get themselves into a couple of dangerous situations, which makes for all the more compelling viewing, and there's some graphic footage of the ultimate consequences of the drug-dealing business that wouldn't be out of place in the likes of FACES OF DEATH, so be warned.

The drugs business is a multi-million pound industry, and the head of the Sinaloa cartel, known as 'El Chapo', or 'Shorty' in English, was a semi-public figure. So how come he lived so long without arrest? He was finally captured earlier this year, but it seems that the authorities were complicit in his freedom, perhaps because it's easier to have a Mr. Big (or Mr. Small?) controlling a cartel than to cut off the head and look at what's inside. In 'The Legend of Shorty' two film-makers, who have an established interest in the subject, attempt what the U.S. and Mexican governments apparently could not do, and track down the man in person. Their quest illustrates the sad state of contemporary Mexico, and the damage that the cartels, and the war on drugs, have done to the country. It's a revealing portrait, enlivened by some brilliant Tex-Mex songs about El Chapo and the life in his gangs, but fundamentally depressing. Something is rotten in the state of Mexico; and it's hard to believe that Shorty's eventual arrest will actually change that much.