One hour and 14 minutes in and the picture just froze. Couldn’t fast forward, nothing. Tried going to the main menu and picking the next chapter, nope. After a few other attempts I took the movie to the PC and played it there, but only got 5 minutes further in before it froze up the PC. In my 2 year history of renting DVDs from Netflix, this was only the second DVD that crapped out in viewing.
Set in Jamaica in the early 70’s it tells the story of a rural “kid” that travels to Kingston to make it big in the music biz. He gets the fame he wanted, but not in the way he originally intended. Half the dialog is in such a heavy accent that it is hard to make out what they are saying, but fortunately the story is easy enough to follow. I’m going to have them mail me another one so I can see what happens in the final 25 minutes. I may watch it from the start though just to listen to the music again or maybe I’ll just go listen to the soundtrack CD…