Jamaican Gold features performances by some of Reggae’s biggest dancehall superstars, but lacks in quality and substance. Chronicling some of the most memorable events at the infamous Jamaican Gold reggae party in Hollywood, California, party promoters Q Bwoy and DJ White Lightning take us through a scattered and contradictory narrative about the origins and intent behind the Jamaican Gold label.

It is not clear if this film is intended to be a documentary, or a film seeking to display performances of Dancehall heavyweights like Beenie Man and Spragga Benz, because it doesn’t do either very well. The dialogues, interviews and performances are displayed schizophrenically. The cinematography is that of a college student filming an Elephant Man show on his razor phone, and then uploading it onto YouTube. Aside from a pretty straightforward, and classically solid performance by Damian Marley (which is by the way two-minutes), this DVD is two—excruciatingly—long hours of misogynistic tits-and-ass grabbing on the dance floor, and not a whole lot of music.

-Boyuan Gao